Andrew Sullivan
ASIN: B01MDJ5MMG
Publisher: Andrew Sullivan
Pages: 72
3rd Edition - New and updated version published January 2017 With added and expanded informationThis is the fascinating story of music. How it started with a song and became one of our most beloved arts.Learn how early composers added modal rhythm to religious chants and turned them into something more.Discover how the printing press standardized music and helped it spread across the globe.Witness the birth of musical theater, opera, and classical music and the explosion of popular freeform music such as rhapsodies and preludes.See how 20th- and 21st-century composers created a wealth of music and left their mark on music forever.Watch the birth of Jazz and Blues in the deep south of America.Experience the explosion of Rock n' Roll in America and Europe and its evolution into Punk, Electric, Metal, New Wave and more.Hear English, Scottish and Irish folk songs and ballads transform into ...