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Contents
10 Early music (50,000 –1600 )
BCE CE
12 From the first hum
14 Ancient world music
16 Didgeridoo
18 World of wind
20 Sounds of Africa
22 Plucky pipa
24 Things with strings
26 Ziryab (Blackbird)
28 The gamelan
30 Rituals and religious music
32 Sitar, tabla, and tambura
34 Yatsuhashi Kengyo
36 Classical music (1600–1900)
38 Baroque (1600–1750) 64 Dazzling dances
40 Johann Sebastian Bach 66 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
42 Grand oratorios 68 National music
44 Vivacious violin 70 The Mighty Handful
46 Classical (1750–1820) 72 Antonín Dvo˘rák
48 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 74 Great conductors
50 Ludwig van Beethoven 76 Triumphant trumpet
52 Map of the orchestra 78 Brassed off
54 Romantic (1815–1910) 80 Claude Debussy
56 Hector Berlioz 82 Heitor Villa-Lobos
58 Outstanding operas 84 Hilarious operettas
60 Richard Wagner
62 Grand piano
86 Modern music (1900–)
88 Arnold Schoenberg 116 Popular music
90 Fun with drums 118 Adventurous Afropop
92 The blues 120 Hip-hop
94 Duke Ellington 122 Television and film music
96 Sassy saxophone 124 A. R. Rahman
98 Joaquín Rodrigo 126 Classical (1970s–)
100 Recorded sound 128 Live music
102 Frank Sinatra 130 Peter Sculthorpe
104 Memorable musicals 132 Today’s new sounds
106 Elvis Presley 134 Music festivals
108 The Beatles
110 Reggae music 136 Experience the real thing!
112 Electric guitar 138 Glossary
114 Led Zeppelin 140 Index of musicians
142 Acknowledgments
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voices
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to and blend together.
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