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Five Straight Lines: A Complete History of Music

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Baroque operas or pop hits, the alien strains of the theremin or the voice of an ancient violin: music is one of the few things that truly unites us. After all, humans learned to hear rhythm, extract sounds from man-made instruments, and combine them into harmonious melodies long before they mastered writing. What did the long-lost music of antiquity sound like? Why did religious chants become the primary form of communication with God? How did composers and performers of the past make their living—and what did they themselves enjoy listening to? This book tells the centuries-old history of the Western musical order—revolutionary discoveries, scientific and technological progress, the emergence of new genres, and, of course, the birth of geniuses: Mozart and McCartney, Schubert and Schoenberg.

"One of the composer Giuseppe Verdi's peasants was astonished to discover that his master could make money by drawing small hooks on five straight lines." These lines weren't always straight, and there weren't always five of them. But they captured on their ink hooks some of the funniest, most profound, disturbing, touching, and most truthful depictions of human nature. This is their story." (Andrew Gantt)
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