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17%OFFMichael Church - The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions - 9781843837268 - V9781843837268
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The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions

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Description for The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions Hardback. The Other Classical Musics offers challenging new perspectives on classical music by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions. Editor(s): Church, Michael. Num Pages: 426 pages, 45 black & white illustrations, 130 colour illustrations, 24 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVGE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 181 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1288.
Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication 2015 There is a treasure trove of underappreciated music out there; this book will convince many to explore it. The Economist What is classical music? This book answers the question in a manner never before attempted, by presenting the history of fifteen parallel traditions, of which Western classical music is just one. Each music is analysed in terms of its modes, scales, and theory; its instruments, forms, and aesthetic goals; its historical development, golden age, and condition today; and the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
426
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843837268
SKU
V9781843837268
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Reviews for The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions
Among its many virtues, Michael Church's The Other Classical Musics can handily serve as a textbook for college and university courses that survey the musical Great Traditions of Eurasia and North Africa, music from the Silk Road lands, and kindred formulations of inter-regional and cross-cultural music studies. The writing, by leading scholars and Church himself, is rigorously ... Read more

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