The Story of MusicHoward GoodallLabel: VintageDescription: *** Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 *** In his dynamic tour through 40000 years of music from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened idea by idea so that each musical innovation – harmony notation sung theatre the orchestra dance music recording broadcasting – strikes us with its original force. He focuses on what changed when and why picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made sound and bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Pérotin to the colossus of Wagner. Along the way he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about why some chords sound discordant and what all post-war pop songs have in common.
