Music : How It Came to Be What It Is
by
Hannah Smith
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Music
ISBN-10
1108038816
ISBN-13
9781108038812
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 20th, 2011
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
366 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.60 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Western "classical" musicArt music, orchestral and formal music
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Hannah Smith (1849–1939) was an educator and composer for children, and published her concise history of music and musical instruments in 1898. It was aimed at the enthusiast, and allows us to see how music and its progress were regarded at the turn of the twentieth century.
Hannah Smith (1849–1939) was a composer for children and an educator. In 1903 she published the popular Founders of Music, a series of biographical sketches of composers written for children. Written in 1898, when Wagner had been dead for only fifteen years, this is a concise history of music and instruments, aimed at the enthusiast. Covering broad subjects rather than concentrating on a few composers, Smith discusses not just the development of musical styles but also how musical notation developed, how the ear functions and how musical instruments produce the sounds they do. The tastes of the time are evident, particularly in the surprisingly detailed discussion of the Oratorio: however, the book allows us to see how music and its progress were regarded at the turn of the twentieth century, before composers such as Stravinsky and Schoenberg shook the musical establishment.
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