Name: Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music
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Author: Tim Lihoreau
ISBN: 9780330438568

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Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Author

Tim Lihoreau

Topic

Idiomas

Collection

English

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0330438565

ISBN13

9780330438568

Synopsis "Stephen Fry's Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music "

A riotous, rambling, and incomplete history of classical music, complete with leg measurementsStephen Fry presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it. Along this musical journey he casually throws in references to pretty much whatever takes his fancy, from the Mongol invasion of Russia and Mr. Khan (Genghis to his friends), the founding of the MCC, the Black Death (which once again became the new black in England), to the heady revolutionary atmosphere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the deep doo-doo that Louis XVI got into (or "du-du" as the French would say). It's all here—Ambrose and early English plainsong, Bach, Mozart (beloved of mobile phones everywhere), Beethoven, Debussy, Wagner (the old romantic), right up to the present day. Entertaining and brilliantly written, this is a pretty reckless romp of a history through classical music and much, much more.