{"product_id":"whaaaaaaaaat-dennis-bathory-kitsz-9781530729524","title":"Whaaaaaaaaat!?: I Don't Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide","description":"\"Whaaaaaaaaat ? I Don't Get Classical Music: A Self-Help Desperation Guide\" is a tonic for the perplexed, and a companion guide for those who feel classical music is forbidding, complex and grandiose. It is a concise and helpful book with humor and insight written by a composer and performer with a lifetime of experience. Beginning with patterns, pitches and instruments, author Dennis Bathory-Kitsz covers topics from performers to shrieking singers to the mysterious classical codes, from Beethoven (\"the great hulk of a man\") through space music, tone poems, nationalism, and even composers insulting each other. Written in response to a student's plea for help (\"I'm desperate  I don't get classical music \"), the book is not stuck in the distant past. Instead, \"Whaaaaaaaaat ?\" includes classical music-which the composer prefers to call \"nonpop\"-from ancient times right up to the present day, from Gregorian chant through electrons and gongs to nonpop fused with pop. Writes one of his students, \"it accomplishes what a textbook does without being a textbook.\" Another says, \"It gets right into the dirty details of Western music and does so in a way that makes even the most novice listener feel like a professional.\" Explored and critiqued by more than two dozen readers from complete amateurs to working professionals, \"Whaaaaaaaaat ?\" is insightful, exuberant, funny and, according to one music professor, \"terrifically valuable as a corrective to bad thinking and its offspring, bad teaching.\" In a short, readable 100 pages, Bathory-Kitsz shares the madness and mystery of classical music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dennis Bathory-Kitsz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1530729521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781530729524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d","brand":"Dennis Bathory-Kitsz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067141189887,"sku":"9781530729524","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75378354-6692-4914-9a74-2501793c38dd.jpg?v=1685411440","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whaaaaaaaaat-dennis-bathory-kitsz-9781530729524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}