Musical revolutions : how the sounds of the Western world changed

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"The invention of music notation by a skittish Italian monk in the eleventh century. The introduction of multilayered hymns in the Middle Ages. The birth of opera in a Venice rebelling against the church's pious restraints. Baroque, Romantic, and atonal music; bebop and cool jazz; Bach and Liszt; Miles Davis and John Coltrane. In telling the exciting story of Western music's evolution, Stuart Isacoff explains how music became entangled in politic...

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ISBN:

9780525658634

Edition:

First edition

Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

How the sounds of the Western world changed

Notes:

"This a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction
Singing from symbols
Tones like coiling vines
The birth of opera
Out of the Bachs
The show-offs
The alchemy of sound
Jazz goes to Paris
A great noise
Emancipating the dissonance
Bebop
Miles ahead
Process music
A question of sex
Mozart among the lotus blossoms
Epilogue: The revolutionary spirit

LCCN:

2021045361

Control Number:

3235633

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