Klarinet Archive - Posting 001005.txt from 2000/10

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Repeats
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:21:21 -0400

on 10/18/00 2:33 AM, Neil Leupold wrote:

>Hey Bill, I know a book that might interest you. It's by a couple of guys
>named
>Donald Grout and Claude Palisca. The title is "A History of Western
>Music," and
>it's a quick read, which should provide you with an insight or two on how
>compos-
>ers dealt with melodies and thematic development over the course of a few
>years.

Now I know Neil was kidding, but seriously, if you want to read about the
history of Western Music, there's a fascinating book by Irving Kolodin
called "The Continuity of Music: A History of Influence". It's out of
print, but some library probably has it or can get it on inter-library
loan. Much more readable than Grout, which was the bane of undergrad
music major's existence 30 years ago, and is the kind of book that gives
musicology a bad name.

David

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

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