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    10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life
    10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life
    10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life
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    10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life

    By Jacopo Caneva

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    Welcome to this ramble through music: background notes unfold, little by little, amazingly and touchingly. Our guide is the young Jacopo Caneva, who puts forward a personal selection of musical extracts for a first listening experience, analysing them with the passion and competence of a teenager who loves and practises music. This is where authors meet, with different styles and historical backgrounds, sharing the will to be revolutionary and ahead of their time. A journey that winds from Mussorgsky to Berlioz, from Debussy to Handel, Danny Elfman and Joe Hisaishi, some of the most beloved composers of two great film directors of our time, Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki. 10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life is a book you will take with you as an essay on music. Enjoy the read and the listen.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishergoWare
    Release dateJul 30, 2015
    ISBN9788867973903
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      10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life - Jacopo Caneva

      © goWare 2015, Florence, first digital edition

      ISBN 978-88-6797-390-3

      Translation: Ilaria Amurri

      Cover design: Lorenzo Puliti

      ePub development: Elisa Baglioni

      Made in Florence, Tuscany, on a Mac

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      Introduction

      Welcome to this ramble through music: background notes unfold, little by little, amazingly and touchingly.

      Our guide is the young Jacopo Caneva, who puts forward a personal selection of musical extracts for a first listening experience, analysing them with the passion and competence of a teenager who loves and practises music.

      This is where authors meet, with different styles and historical backgrounds, sharing the will to be revolutionary and ahead of their time.

      A journey that winds from Mussorgsky to Berlioz, from Debussy to Handel, Danny Elfman and Joe Hisaishi, some of the most beloved composers of two great film directors of our time, Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki.

      10 Pieces of Music You Should Listen to at Least Once in Your Life is a book you will take with you as an essay on music.

      Enjoy the read and the listen.

      * * *

      Jacopo Caneva was born in Latisana (near the city of Udine), on 29th June 1998, and now he lives in Portogruaro, in the Province of Venice. He is in 3rd year at Liceo XXV Aprile, a secondary school focusing on humanities. He also studies harp, harmony and composition. His favourite film directors are Tim Burton, Hayao Miyazaki and Takeshi Kitano; his favourite musicians are Modest Mussorgsky, Danny Elfman, Claude Debussy and Joe Hisaishi and he also loves reading the works by Haruki Murakami and Lewis Carroll. When he grows up, he wants to be a film-maker.

      He has published the following e-books with goWare: Jacopo Caneva’s Tim Burton, Jacopo Caneva’s Miyazaki. Hayao Miyazaki e lo Studio Ghibli: un vento che scuote l’anime e I 10 brani da ascoltare almeno una volta nella vita.

      Jacopo Caneva also writes a film review column, L’occhio discreto di Melonhead (Melonhead’s discreet eye), in the free magazine e-mood, published by goWare and Thèsis Contents.

      to my father

      to M°Andrea Zerbin

      Author’s note

      I wrote these pages as a dissertation for my junior high school final exam, with the purpose of suggesting a selection of musical extracts which may be a good starting point for beginner listeners.

      The authors mentioned in the present work differ in

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