Shortest History of Music

From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé - 5,000 Years of Instrument and Song

AvAndrew Ford

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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No other art is as popular—or pervasive—as music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatles—even the brand-new Beyoncé. But things weren’t always this way.In this brisk, breakneck history under 300 pages, award-winning composer, author, and broadcaster Andrew Ford replays the dramatic evolution of music, from early oral songs to the first orchestras (and their wealthy patrons) and from the emergence of recording technology to the multibillion-dollar industry we know today. The Shortest History of Music explores the immense influence of religion, politics, and the economy on world music, what led humans to make music in the first place, and why—in every era—we are irresistibly drawn to listen to it.The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-06
Mått:130 x 196 x 20 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Shortest History Series
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:The Experiment LLC
ISBN:9798893030525

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Andrew Ford is a composer, writer, and broadcaster who has won awards in each of those capacities. In 2014 he was a Poynter Fellow and visiting composer at Yale University, in 2015 visiting lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory, and in 2018 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Ford has written widely on all manner of music, published ten previous books, and has written, presented, and coproduced many radio series, mainly for Australia’s national radio.

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"This entertaining contribution to the Shortest History series . . . makes a compelling and informative case for the power and necessity of music."

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionThe Tradition of Music: from Prehistory to the presentMusic and Notation: Blueprints for Building in Sound from 1400 BCE to the presentMusic for Sale: Paying the Piper from 1000 BCE to the presentMusic and Modernism: Reinventing the Art from 1150 to the presentRecording Music: from 1900 to the presentEpilogue: What Is Music?Further ReadingAcknowledgmentsImage CreditsIndexAbout the Author