1812 and All That: A Concise History of Music from 30,000 BC to the Millennium

By Lawrence Leonard

The only date in this history of music is in the title. This leaves space for really important considerations such as the effect of the side drum on the Russian Revolution and the influence of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920151337
• ISBN13: 9780920151334
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Sound And Vision
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

For anyone who sat in an audience or performed upon a stage

In 1812 And All That: A Concise History Of Music From 30,000 BC To The Millennium, classical music composer, conductor, and musician Lawrence Leonard takes a fascinating, unique, irreverent, funny and strangely informative survey of music history. He examines such off-beat and entertaining questions as to why Glinka's "Russian & Ludmilla Overture" is suitable for boiling eggs, and why Mozart's overture to "The Magic Flute" is not; how Haydn's wife influenced the development of the sonata form; the position held by the camel in Italian opera; and why Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" is so loud; and much, much more! 1812 And All That is enthusiastically recommended reading for anyone who ever sat in an audience or performed upon a stage!