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    Charting the Classics: Classical Music in Diagrams
    Charting the Classics: Classical Music in Diagrams
    Charting the Classics: Classical Music in Diagrams
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    Charting the Classics: Classical Music in Diagrams

    By Tim Lihoreau, Daniel Ross and Darren Henley

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    A witty and fun graphic depiction of the classical music world   With this fun and lighthearted book, readers can see the world of classical music as it’s never been seen before. Using flow charts, pie charts, Venn diagrams, checklists, graphs, and other ingenious graphics, the authors have neatly represented many favorite pieces of classical music, musicians, and composers, along with insights on orchestras, concert etiquette, and much more, in nearly 100 simple and amusing images. Music fans will be delighted by this alternative representation of the classical music world, surprised by some of the connections, and, yes, stumped by the occasional puzzle—but immensely satisfied once they have worked them all out. This humorous collection is a must for both classical music fans and puzzle enthusiasts—it’s also a witty and fun gift for music lovers of all stripes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElliott & Thompson
    Release dateApr 1, 2015
    ISBN9781783961009
    Charting the Classics: Classical Music in Diagrams
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    Tim Lihoreau

    Tim Lihoreau was born in Leeds in 1965. His early life was blighted by fronsophobia and it is highly likely that he suffered the odd hebdomophobic attack, something which doctors now think might have been a side-effect of his increasing holusophobia. Despite his crippling hrydaphobia, (not to mention his excirculophobic tendencies) he made it through school bearing his aliacallophobia almost proudly, as if it were a trophy. The lack of any real other options led him to study music at Leeds University - where the first signs of his caerulophobia became apparent. His graduation was made all the more remarkable as it involved overcoming both chronic arcaphobia and occasional bouts of manepostophobia. For a time, he played the piano for his living, only overcoming his officinophobia in 1990, when he started at Jazz FM. In 1991, he conquered uxorphobia, before moving to work at Classic FM in 1993, where, it is thought, the first symptoms of primaforaphobia led him to gain the rank of Creative Director. He is the author of several books - he notably overcame cadophobia to write The Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music with Stephen Fry - and is a contributor to both The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, something which helps his disabling contumaphobia. By way of therapy for his ceterinfanophobia, he now lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children.He is calvophobic. Tim Lihoreau would like to make it abundantly clear that he has suffered from virtually every phobia in this book, with the notable exception of idemophobia and magnafundaphobia.

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      Charting the Classics - Tim Lihoreau

      Introduction

      Every day on Classic FM, we’re lucky enough to broadcast the world’s greatest music to our millions of listeners up and down the UK.

      As well as playing brilliant recordings of the finest examples of the genre, made by the greatest soloists, ensembles and orchestras, we’re always on the lookout for other ways to share classical music that are slightly different and rather more offbeat. So, for this brand new book, we decided to take some of the best-loved pieces of classical music and to present them as a collection of mathematical diagrams and charts that you might more normally expect to see as part of a business presentation.

      There has long been a connection between classical music and mathematics, and there’s no better example of this

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