# The Story of Music

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- Book: [The Story of Music](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-goodall/the-story-of-music) ([The Story of Music.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-goodall/the-story-of-music.md))
- Authors: [Howard Goodall](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-goodall)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4813-086-3
- Published: 2013-01-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

*** Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 *** In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation – harmony, notation, sung theatre, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting – strikes us with its original force. He focuses on what changed when and why, picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made sound and bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Pérotin to the colossus of Wagner. Along the way, he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works: what scales are all about, why some chords sound discordant and what all post-war pop songs have in common.