Five Straight Lines
eBook - ePub

Five Straight Lines

A History of Music

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Five Straight Lines

A History of Music

About this book

'Fascinating... Composer Andrew Gant is a masterful guide, introducing readers to the major players and key themes of an entrancing topic.' BBC History Magazine Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music?Ranging across time and space, this book takes us on a grand musical tour from music's origins in prehistory right up to the twenty-first century. Charting the leaps in technology, thought and practice that led to extraordinary revolutions of music in each age, the book takes us through medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy and Jazz era America to reveal the rich history of music we still listen to today. From Mozart to McCartney, Schubert to Schoenberg, Professor Andrew Gant brings to life the people who made the music, their techniques and instruments, as well as the places their music was played, from sombre churches to rowdy taverns, stately courts to our very own homes.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Prologue: The First Million Years
  8. Part One: Music in the Ancient World (40,000 BCE–500 CE)
  9. Part Two: The Medieval World (500 –1400)
  10. Part Three: Renaissance (1400–1600)
  11. Part Four: Baroque (1600–1759)
  12. Part Five: Classicism (1740 –90)
  13. Part Six: The Romantic Century (1770–1914)
  14. Part Seven: The Age of Anxiety (1888 –1975)
  15. Part Eight: Stockhausen and Sgt. Pepper (1945 –2000)
  16. Part Nine: The Way We Live Now (2000 –∞)
  17. Epilogue: The Next Million Years
  18. Notes
  19. List of Illustrations
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Index