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The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé—5,000 Years of Instrument and Song
By Ford, Andrew
- ISBN
- 9798893030525
- Publisher
- The Experiment. (Shortest History)
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Reviewed on April 18, 2025 | Arts & Humanities
Composer and writer Ford (coauthor of The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies) seeks to cover thousands of years and hundreds of performers, creators, and entire cultures in a little over 200 pages, as the "Shortest History" series demands. The brevity requires gaps and omissions, which leads to some leaps in coverage. For example,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
