Music

by Frederic V. Grunfeld

Book Overview

Music is the first volume in Newsweek Books' innovative new series, World of Culture. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882251015
• ISBN13: 9780882251011
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Music is the language of the Soul

This was the first volume in a Newsweek sponsored set on 'Culture of the World'. There are subsequent volumes on Theater, Architecture, Poetry, Painting, Cinema, The Novel, Opera. The approach is by and large historical and Grunfeld ably conducts us along the long route from the 'primitive tribal musicmaker through the medieval chorister, the eighteenth century court performer, the romantic composer to the jazz improviser.' He touches in the last chapter on the Beatles and popular music. There are one- hundred and seventy - accompanying illustrations. Were such a volume produced today it would of course come with an accompanying C.D. containing illustrations of the music spoken about. But this is a good, solid history which too relates the development of Music to parallel developments in the other Arts and Society in general.