Non-Fiction Book Review
Book Review on : The Great Composers
Author : Wendy Thompson
Main Points of the Book :
1. Composition through the ages
- Music as a Language
- Emergence of Composers
- Baroque Forms
- Transition to Classicism
- The Romantic Heyday
- Dawn of a New Age
- Music of the Future
2. Lives and works of the Great Composers
a) The Middle Ages to the Renaissance
- Medieval and Polyphonic Music
b) The Baroque Era
- Harmony and Ornament
c) The Classical Period
- Music of the Enlightenment
d) The Romantic Era
- Drama and Poetry in Music
e) The Rise of Nationalism
- The Nationalist Movement
f) The Later Romantics
- Music on the Grand Scale
g) The Early Twentieth Century
- Music in a New Framework
h) Music since World War II
- Modern Music

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