The Story of Music
Goodall, Howard
From Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
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From Southampton Books, Sag Harbor, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 01 August 2012
About this Item
First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped (£20.00 price intact). Published by Chatto & Windus, 2013. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in silver with red endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. A fine copy of this history of music and musical studies by English composer Howard Goodall. 358 pages. ISBN: 9780701187521. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!. Seller Inventory # 117296
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Story of Music
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Like New
Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
*** Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 ***
Music is an intrinsic part of everyday life, and yet the history of its development from single notes to multi-layered orchestration can seem bewilderingly specialised and complex.
In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology. Instead he leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation - harmony, notation, sung theatre, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting - strikes us with its original force. He focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made sound and bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Pérotin to the colossus of Wagner. Along the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, why some chords sound discordant and what all post-war pop songs have in common.
The story of music is the story of our urge to invent, connect, rebel - and entertain. Howard Goodall's beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavour and a groundbreaking map of our musical journey.
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