Stuart Isacoff

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1) A natural history of the piano: the instrument, the music, the musicians--from Mozart to modern jazz, and everything in between

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Isacoff, Stuart

Publication Date

2011

Language

English

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Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.

2) Musical revolutions: how the sounds of the western world changed

Author

Isacoff, Stuart

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Publication Date

2022.

Language

English

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"From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history--classical, jazz, rock--all of which forever altered Western culture"-- Provided by publisher. "The invention of music notation by a skittish Italian monk in the eleventh century. The introduction of multilayered hymns in the Middle Ages. The birth of opera in a Venice rebelling against the church's pious restraints. Baroque,...

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