Bach, Beethoven and the Boys - Tenth Anniversary Edition!
Subtitle: Music History As It Ought To Be Taught
Contributors: Dave Donald (Illustrator); Anthony Burgess (Preface)
Edition: 10 Anv edition
Publisher: Sound And Vision
Published: September 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780920151105
Subjects: Music; Humor; General; Music/Songbooks; Instruction & Study - Composition; History & Criticism - General; Music / Classical; Composers; History and criticism
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.