Goodall guides the reader through five seismic developments in the history of Western music: the invention of notation, taking in the invention of equal temperament, the invention of the piano and that of opera and finally the first recording.
Goodall guides the reader through five seismic developments in the history of Western music: the invention of notation, taking in the invention of equ...
In his energetic tour through 30,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology and leads us through the story of music as it really happened, so that each musical innovation strikes us with its original force.
In his energetic tour through 30,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful ...
