The Shortest History of Music: From Bone Flutes to Synthesizers, Hildegard of Bingen to Beyoncé—5,000 Years of Instrument and Song Tangled For forty years

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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 Tangled For forty yearsFrom prehistoric songwriting to digital recording, discover the history of the worlds favorite art form No other art is as popularor pervasiveas music. With just a few clicks, anyone can cue up (and critique) Chopin or Cher, The Bangles or The Beatleseven the brand new Beyonc. But things werent always this way. In this brisk, breakneck history under 300 pages, award winning composer, author, and broadcaster Andrew Ford replays the dramatic evolution