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David W. Barber

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David W. Barber is a journalist and musician and the author of more than a dozen books of music (including Accidentals on Purpose; Bach, Beethoven and the Boys; When the Fat Lady Sings; and Getting a Handel on Messiah) and literature (including Quotable Sherlock, Quotable Alice and Atonement and other stories). Formerly a writer and entertainment editor of The Kingston Whig-Standard, editor of Broadcast Week magazine at the Toronto Globe and Mail and the assistant editor of arts and life for Postmedia newspapers, he is currently a freelance writer, editor, musician and composer. As a composer, his works include two symphonies, a jazz mass based on the music of Dave Brubeck, a Requiem, several short choral and chamber works and various vocal ...more

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	Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History as It Ought to Be Taught by David W. Barber (Goodreads Author), Dave Donald (Illustrator) 3.87 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 1986 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History As It Ought To Be Taught by David W. Barber (Goodreads Author), Dave Donald (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Musician's Dictionary by David W. Barber (Goodreads Author), Dave Donald (Illustrator), Yehudi Menuhin (Preface) 4.41 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting a Handel on Messiah by David W. Barber (Goodreads Author), Dave Donald (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tutus, Tights and Tiptoes: Ballet History as It Ought to Be Taught by David W. Barber (Goodreads Author), Dave Donald (Illustrator) 3.78 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Better Than It Sounds!: A Dictionary of Humourous Musical Quotations 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tenors, Tantrums and Trills: An Opera Dictionary From Aida to Zzzz by David W. Barber (Goodreads Author), Dave Donald (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Accidentals on Purpose: A Musician's Dictionary (Music History as it Ought to be Taught Book 1) by David W. Barber (Goodreads Author), Dave Donald (Illustrator), Yehudi Menuhin (Preface) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hedshot (Dugan Heywood mysteries Book 1) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mozart is just God's way of making the rest of us feel insignificant.”
― David W. Barber, Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History as It Ought to Be Taught

tags: humor, mozart, music

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“Too many musicians — singers and instrumentalists — performed it so many times that it’s hard not to just go through the motions of playing (or singing) the notes, rather than remembering that you have to turn the notes into real music.”
― David W. Barber, Getting a Handel on Messiah

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“Between 1714 and 1830, every king of England was named George. They were all members of the House of Hanover, which is in Germany. It rather embarrassed the English to have to import their royal family from Germany, but they didn’t have much choice. They’d more or less run out of Stewarts. (Well, no entirely, but that’s another story.) Anyway, the first four Hanoverians were all called George. To make them easier to tell apart, they were numbered, with typical Germanic efficiency, George I, George II, George III, and George IV.”
― David W. Barber, Getting a Handel on Messiah

tags: england, king-george, royalty

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