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The Rest Is Noise
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--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Feb 2011, 14:49 ---But I offer you a different reading challenge: A Concise History of Western Music by Paul Griffiths. Nothing is omitted - he doesn't even reach the year 1400 until chapter 4, while the end reaches beyond 2000 - and all in barely 300 pages of wonderful writing and beautifully condensed and sequenced thought. I find it particularly good for showing the relationships between all the different strands of development.
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All right, I'm deeply intrigued.
Off-topic: Despite having nothing to do with anything but "noise," I must applaud the taste of the fellow who posted "Tunnel Of Goats". I'm actually listening to Coil right now...
Back on-topic: The only thing that really disappointed me about The Rest Is Noise was the absence of any in-depth information on Hovhaness, who was certainly an important figure in American art music, as well as the relative paucity of information on microtonal composers aside from Partch – at least a paragraph on Carillo's Thirteenth Sound would have sufficed – though otherwise I was quite thrilled.
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