Bach, Beethoven, and the Boys
Subtitle: Music History As It Ought to Be Taught
Publisher: Sound & Vision Pub Ltd
Published: June 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780920151075
Subjects: Humor; Music/Songbooks; Music; History & Criticism; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); History and criticism; Composers
First sentence: ALTHOUGH THE ANCIENT GREEKS had a thing or two to say about music, and before that prehistoric Man probably hummed some sort of mastodon-hunting song as he set off from his cave each morning, music history as we know it is usually said to have begun with Gregorian chant, on the theory that it had to start somewhere.