The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #81843 Message #1515692
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
05-Jul-05 - 10:44 PM
Thread Name: Books: Latest books you are reading
Subject: RE: BS: Latest books you are reading
Howard Goodall's "Big Bangs - the story of 5 discoveries that changed musical history" - follows on from the original BBC TV doco.
Very good for both musos & non-musos in explaining some very basic things in western music & why they are so, and why this makes western music different from other types such as Oriental & Arabian, etc.