Stereo Review's guide to Understanding music
What you need to know to increase your listening pleasure
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expand your appreciation of music.
understanding more about music can be as easy as listening to your favorite recordings.
Guide to Understanding Music
Available for the first time. this unique four-disc album is interesting, enjoyable, easy to comprehend, and instructive. It is the first project of its kind to approach the understanding of music through its basic elements: rhythm ... melody ... harmony ... texture If you have wanted to know more about music--or simply want to enjoy it more--Stereo Review's GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC will be the most rewarding step you can take in that direction, whether you can read a note of music or not, whether you can tell one composer from another or not.
Written and narrated exclusively for Stereo Review by David Randolph, Music Director of the Masterwork Music and Art Foundation, this fascinating set of stereo records will help you become
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David Randolph, Producer of Stereo Review's Guide to Understanding Music A large part of Mr. Randolph's career has been devoted to bringing a greater understanding and enjoyment of music to laymen. He has lectured at New York University, Avery Fisher Hall (formerly Philharmonic Hall) and The New School, and his radio broadcasts have been featured over the years on several New York City stations. As the conductor of The Masterwork Chorus, The St. Cecilia Chorus, and the United Choral Society, he has performed most of the major works for chorus and orchestra in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. His book This Is Music was designated one of the "Best of the Year" by the New York Times upon its publication several years ago. The recorded Guide to Understanding Music is an extension and elaboration in sound of many of the ideas contained in that book.
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a more sophisticated, more knowledgeable listener -- and a more completely satisfied one as well. It will give you an "ear for music" you never thought you had.
In the GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC, David Randolph first discusses, by means of a recorded narration, how the composer uses and unifies all the basic musical elements. After each musical point is made in the narration, a musical demonstration of the point under discussion is provided.
Thus you become a part of the creative musical process by listening, by understanding, by seeing how music's "raw materials" are employed by com posers and performers to attain the highest level of expressivity and communication through musical form.
And all this while you simply listen and enjoy. It's that easy.
Act Now For If you are among the first 1,000 to order this completely fascinating new GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC Record Set, you will also receive--absolutely free--the eight-volume library The Masters of Music. Ordinarily an $8 value, this unusual set offers an instructional and entertaining look at the careers of eight famous master composers- Haydn, Debussy, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and Britten. Remember . . .
this offer is limited to the first 1,000 orders. After this limit is reached, the Guide to Understanding Music alone will be shipped. So act today. Fill out and mail the coupon together with your check or money order. If you prefer, you may charge your order to your American Express or Bank Americard account.
FOUR LONG-PLAY STEREO RECORDS:
Record I- The Elements of Music
1. Rhythm
3. Harmony
2. Melody
4. Texture
Record II- Sense and Sensation in Music (The Instruments of the Orchestra)
How Music Is Unified
Record III- Form in Music Words and Music
Record IV- Can Music Tell a Story or Paint a Picture?
The Interpretation of Music
The GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING MUSIC contains OVER 200 MUSICAL EXAMPLES which have been carefully chosen from among thousands of recordings by major record companies as the best illustrations of musical points made in the recorded narration. In addition, supplementary musical demonstrations were specially re corded for this album by pianist Michael May and baritone William Metcalf. (A complete list identifies the source of each musical excerpt).
FREE BOOKLET INCLUDED
The accompanying booklet is a valuable complement to the album. It presents David Randolph's straightforward professional approach to music, and shares the insights and understanding of his many years of experience in bringing music to listeners . . .
as well as advice on how you can make the best use of the album.
If you already have some knowledge of music, the Guide to Understanding Music can expand and enrich that knowledge. If you've always wanted to understand music but have been discouraged be cause it looked too difficult and time-consuming, the Guide to Understanding Music can show you how easily and quickly you can make yourself at home with any music. And if, perhaps, you are un decided about whether you really want to-become more involved with music, the Guide to Under standing Music can help you make up your mind.
The Guide to Understanding Music has been several years in the planning and production stages to assure that it would be as complete, as up-to-date, and as effective a presentation of its subject as possible. The exclusive four-disc recording is now ready, available for the first time through Stereo Review. The special low price is just $15.98, postpaid, for all four 33 1/2 rpm stereo long-play records, a price made possible by the availability of the consultative and production facilities of Stereo Review and its staff.
Under ordinary auspices, a work of this nature and importance would cost much more.
FREE BONUS OFFER
Records, Ziff-Davis Service Division 595 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10012.
Yes, I want to enrich my musical background! Please send the Guide to Understanding Music at $15.98, postpaid. I understand that if my order is among the first 1,000 received, I will receive The Masters of Music books as a free bonus offer.
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