Sound Bites [electronic resource] : The bendy path of classical music from Ancient Greece to today from your favourite ABC Classic presenter of Weekend Breakfast and bestselling author of Whole Notes & Cadence
Ed Le Brocq2023
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Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition
that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music.
Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a
place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage executing the wildest
rhythms, a singer performing the most heartbreaking of melodies, or a solitary
pianist playing an instrument that weighs half a tonne? How did the melodies and
harmonies we listen to today, right now, come about?
Ed Le Brocq invites you on a journey through a living tradition that spans
millennia: the tradition of Western classical music. With Ed, you will roam its
magnificently bendy path, from the Mesopotamians to the mediaeval age to music
composed just last week by Australia's most creative minds. You will discover
how notes from the Indus Valley influenced the development of scales by
Pythagoras and his mates in Ancient Greece, finding their way through the Romans
in...
Main title:
Author:
Ed Le Brocq, Author
Imprint:
Australia : ABC Books, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (240.0)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781460716199
Language:
English
BRN:
448733
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |