Listen Again by David Wulstan - 9781442237490

Listen AgainA New History of Music\nAuthor(s): David Wulstan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442237490, 978-1442237490\nSynopsis\nHow do you tell the key of a piecewithout looking at a score? How do you know when a musical work ended before an audience applauds or a radio announcer returns on air? Was there, in fact, a breakdown of tonality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? These questions and others are the focus of David Wulstans Listen Again: A New History of Music. He also shows where the nuove musiche of the early Baroque era came from and what the two critical but unlinked chords in the middle of Bachs Brandenburg Concerto No. III signify.\n\nPrevious literature in music does not properly address these questions and innumerable others. In Listen Again, Wulstan illustrates how music from Bach to Bartk was far less \""revolutionary\"" than customarily imagined and that the \""inversionis""