Musical Revolutions Isacoff Stuart
Musical Revolutions Isacoff Stuart From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history--classical and jazz--all of which forever…
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Musical Revolutions Isacoff Stuart
From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history--classical and jazz--all of which forever altered Western culture "A fascinating journey that begins with the origins of musical notation and travels through the centuries reaching all the way to our time."--Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor and music director of the Czech PhilharmonicThe invention of music notation by a skittish Italian monk in the eleventh century. The birth of opera in a Venice rebelling against the church's pious restraints. The introduction of multilayered hymns in the Middle Ages.
In telling the exciting story of Western music's evolution, Stuart Isacoff explains how music became entangled in politics, culture, Baroque, Romantic, and atonal music; bebop and cool jazz; Bach and Liszt; Miles Davis and John Coltrane.