Understanding Music: Past and Present
N. Alan Clark, Thomas Heflin, Jeffrey Kluball, Elizabeth Kramer
A clear walk through Western music from the Middle Ages to today, closing with popular music in the United States. It pairs the fundamentals and the physics of sound with the major styles and composers.
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