Klarinet Archive - Posting 000344.txt from 1999/10

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] My Defective Education
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:08:19 -0400

on 10/11/99 2:17 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:

>One of the defects in my musical education, one which I have often
>regretted,
>is in the area of music history. I would like to find a book or books which
>could help me understand the "timeline" of music in the last five
>centuries or
>so -- which composers launched which great new trends, which composers were
>obviously influenced by the works of which others, when were the various
>classical forms we know and love first introduced, and so on.

Hunt for an out of print book called "The Continuity of Music - A History
of Influence" by Irving Kolodin. I think it's published by Knopf.
Probably some libraries would have it. It is a very readable history of
music from about the time of Bach to the "present", whose premise is that
the invention of the printing press, and its ultimate application to
printing music, changed the history of music in a major way. It's a very
interesting book, if not a scholarly one.

If you are having difficulty sleeping, read Grout! Encyclopedic, but Oh!
so dull!

David

David Niethamer
Principal Clarinet, Richmond Symphony
dnietham@-----.edu
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/

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