The Story of Music

*** Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 *** In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall 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 Perotin 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.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Goodall, Goodall Howard
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9780099587170
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958717-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology