Published to accompany Howard Goodall's major new BBC TV series, this is an accessible history for all music lovers
HOWARD GOODALL is an Emmy, BRIT and BAFTA award-winning composer of choral music (Eternal Light- A Requiem), stage musicals (The Hired Man, Love Story), film and TV scores - among them The Vicar of Dibley, Q.I., Red Dwarf, Blackadder and Into the Storm. He was awarded the CBE in 2011 for service to music education.
A lively zip through some 45 milennia
*Sunday Times*
Goodall is an engaging and erudite guide and this work is both
accessible and illuminating
*Daily Express*
Great length but still leavened with lively wit
*Telegraph*
[Goodall] knows his stuff, and tells it well
*Guardian*
Highly knowledgeable, and a brilliant communicator, Goodall has an
infectious enthusiasm and is genuinely respectful of all forms of
music
*Good Book Guide*
Now comes Howard Goodall and all of everyone's prayers are answered
... He is sharply witty and entirely on the ball, but he never acts
the smart ass and, most importantly, he obviously has deep
knowledge of what he is talking about ... I prophesy that it will
not only win prizes but change lives
*Daily Telegraph*
An accessible guide to roughly 42,000 years of music in just over
300 pages that manages neither to sacfrifice precise detail nor
pugnacious opinion ... Goodall is unfailingly acute ... a clever,
engaging read
*Scotland on Sunday*
There is a Jumpin’ Jack Flash liveliness in Goodall’s approach
*The Times*
Who better to demystify the origins of music and trace the
evolution of this most universal of artistic disciplines?
*Express*
The Story of Music is a lively zip through some 45 millennia …
jumping back and forth between classical, folk and pop
*Sunday Times*
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