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Musical revolutions : how the sounds of the western world changed Cover Image Book Book

Musical revolutions : how the sounds of the western world changed

Isacoff, Stuart (author.).

Summary: "From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history--classical, jazz, rock--all of which forever altered Western culture"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525658634
  • ISBN: 0525658637
  • ISBN: 9780525658641
  • Physical Description: print
    303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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