The triumph of music
Subtitle: the rise of composers, musicians and their art
By: Tim Blanning.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780674031043
Subjects: Music -- Social aspects -- History; Musicians -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Status : you are a God-man, the true artist by God's grace; title: Purpose : the most romantic of all the arts; title: Places and spaces : from palace to stadium; title: Technology : from Stradivarius to Stratocaster; title: Liberation : nation, people, sex.