Lucid, perceptive, passionate: Rosen emerges, not surprisingly, as a musician and scholar of breadth and sensitivity.
The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations about Art and Performance
£17.95
Edition:Hardback978067498846027/11/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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Published by Yale, this is a fascinating and original exploration of the influence of the newly popular guitar on the Romantics and on culture in the early C19th.
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From the late C18th to the present, by a concert pianist of renown. Lucid and fascinating. From Yale.
The Piano: A History in 100 Pieces
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The 1970s NME critic got bored with pop and discovered that the most radical music of all was classical. This is a personal and entertainingly idiosyncratic history of music.
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Bowie's biographer charts the movement through 100+ interviews with those who lived it and wore the flounces.