Classical Music For Dummies / Various - Classical Music For Dummies / Various - Music CD

Sure. You know your Chuck Berry from your Teddy Bears, but maybe there's a 1,500-year gap in your knowledge of music. To know, know, know classical music is to love, love, love it. The 6 CDs in this collection take you from the middle ages to the Renaissance, the Baroque, to Romanticism to Modernism. They greatest conductors and orchestras play some of the greatest sonatas and symphonies ever written as you read about them in a special 48-page book. Before you know it, you'll be exploring works by your favorite composers or from your favorite era in music. This is the perfect newcomer's guide to music that is no where near as daunting, elitist or impenetrable as you might think.