This catalog is a guide to music appreciation recordings in the NLS collection. It is divided into eighteen sections. “Learning to Listen” includes recordings that help the novice discover the joys of music, with separate listings for classical and popular music. “Biography,” the largest section, explores the lives and works of composers, performers, educators, and conductors. “History” details the five periods of western classical music, from the Renaissance to modern times. “Instruments” looks at the myriad ways music is made, from the human voice to early harps to electronic synthesizers. “Rehearsals” lists recordings of different ensembles in rehearsal with famous conductors including Sergei Koussevitzky and Leonard Bernstein. “Forms and Analysis” presents information about the structure of classical music pieces. “Master Classes” lists recordings of soloists such as Andres Segovia and Pablo Casals teaching lessons that were open to the public. The catalog wraps up with special topics including folk music from around the world, holiday and seasonal music, jazz, nostalgia, opera, patriotic music, sacred/gospel music, and music and the human experience.
Note: Most of these titles are available in digital cartridge format as indicated with a DBM prefix. Some titles are also available in the older cassette format.
Contents
- Learning to Listen
- Classical
- Popular
- Biography
- Composers
- Conductors
- Educators
- Performers
- Songwriters
- History
- General
- Medieval and Renaissance
- Baroque
- Classical
- Romantic
- Modern
- Instruments
- General
- Brass
- Electronic
- Keyboard
- Percussion
- Strings
- Woodwinds
- Rehearsals
- Songwriting/Composing
- Ornamentation
- Forms and Analysis
- Canon and Fugue
- Cantata
- Chamber Music
- Concerto
- Dance
- Electronic
- Improvisation
- Mass
- Motet/Madrigal
- Oratorio
- Overture
- Rhapsody
- Rondo
- Scherzo
- Sonata
- Suite
- Symphony
- Theme and Variation
- Master Classes
- Brass
- Conducting
- Percussion
- Piano
- Strings
- Woodwinds
- Voice
- Folk Music
- African
- African-Caribbean
- American
- Australian
- European
- Mexican American
- Native American
- Oriental
- Russian
- South American
- Other Cultures
- Holidays and Seasons
- Christmas
- Hanukkah
- Thanksgiving
- Valentine's Day
- Seasons
- Jazz, Ragtime, Blues and Broadway
- Nostalgia and Popular Music
- Opera
- Appreciation
- Plots
- Michael Barclay Lectures
- Alfred Glasser Commentaries on Lyric Opera
- Ann Thompson Commentaries
- Talking about Opera: Various Commentators
- Patriotic and protest music
- Sacred and gospel music
- Music and the human experience