Classical Music for Beginners (by Stacy Combs Lynch)

• Copyright 1994, probably a more recent print,   124 pages
• Published by Writers & Readers Publishing Inc, New York
• Softcover
• Very good condition, as new.

Illustrated by Michael D. Lynch.     For those who want to know the score on classical music, this book provides an easy, fun introduction to a subject that many new listeners find intimidating.  

Classical Music for Beginners helps new listeners increase their muscial literacy with a minimum  of effort and a maximum of pleasure.

The body of the book begins with a brief introduction to each Muscial Era, then goes on to feature the composers, their lives, their music,  'what made them famous and what kept them human',  and a few juicy anecdotes, narrated in Stacy Cooms Lynch's listener-friendly language and illustrated by Michael Lynch's often hilarious cartoons.

This book includes the most important works of each composer, a glossary of muscial terms, and short, painless "Intermissions" on The Symphony Orchestra, The Conductor, Reading Music, and other little treasures, like how to tell the difference between a sonata and a symphony   - or a conductor and a violin!.