The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art

by Timothy C.W. Blanning

Book Overview

A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today's rock stars.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674031040
• ISBN13: 9780674031043
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"