How to Listen to Music

Why love complex music? How does an experienced listener “read” a piece? Why is it important to know different ways of performing the same work? What is theoryba, ground, and sonorics? Which Russian composer is a contemporary of Mozart? How not to confuse Verdi and Monteverdi? This book is a navigator in the ocean of academic music for schoolchildren and their parents. In a short, honest, fun, and systematic way, it explains how to tune in to meeting the classics, get rid of silly stereotypes, name everything by the right names, and find your path through the centuries of Western and Russian music. Read by the author.