An Introduction to Music
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781417984534
Subjects: Composition & orchestration; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music; Music/Songbooks
First sentence: THREE men, one in the concert hall listening to a symphony of Beethoven, another in the opera house listening to a presentation of one of Wagner's music-dramas, a third in his own home listening to a sentimental tune sung by a radio performer, are all doing the same thing, or rather, are having the same thing done to them: the atmosphere about them is supplying them with oxygen and transmitting to them waves of compressions and rarefactions set up by certain vibrating bodies.