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For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music.
Paul Morley made his name as a journalist covering the rock and pop of the 1970s and 1980s. But as his career progressed, he found himself drawn toward developing technologies, streaming platforms, and, increasingly, the music from the past that streaming services now made available. Suddenly able to access every piece Mozart or Bach had ever written and to curate playlists that worked with these musicians' themes across different performers, composers, and eras, he began to understand classical music in a whole new way and to believe that it was music at its most dramatic and revealing.
In A Sound Mind, Morley takes readers along on his journey into the history and future of classical music. His descriptions, explanations, and guidance make this seemingly arcane genre more friendly to listeners and show the music's power, depth, and timeless beauty. In Morley's capable hands, the history of the classical genre is shown to be the history of all music, with these long-ago pieces influencing everyone from jazz greats to punk rockers and the pop musicians of today.
Published | Nov 10 2020 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 624 |
ISBN | 9781635570250 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth. Destined to become a classic (pun intended)
Jarvis Cocker
An exhilarating shredding of received wisdom, provocatively casting pop music on the side of the stagnant and conservative – a bit last century – while stressing classical music's dynamic revolutionary potential … It's not the shtick of a down-with-the-kids music teacher, but a writer both in his element and out of it, thrilled at the possibility of new connections, excited to see if he can write about Stravinsky the way he would Hot Chip … Morley remains a brilliant conductor – of music, of ideas, of inexplicable flashes of lightning. He knows the score
Sunday Times
In this boundary-pushing book, the music journalist charts his increasing immersion in classical music – not as a lurch towards “maturity”, but a recognition of its revolutions and revelations. Tumbling together Beethoven and Buzzcocks, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Shostakovich, he also embeds a meditation on mortality and obsolescence in his orchestral manoeuvres
Best Music Books of the Year, Sunday Times
His passion for centuries of music – both celebrated and obscure – is infectious
Irish Independent
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