The Music Of Man: Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis W. Davis

Music, of all the arts, binds us in common humanity as it delights and stimulates, soothes and comforts. This book is about those who create, those who perform and those who listen - and its evolution from primal beginnings to its present-day form. It's a fascinating trip through the discovery of sound, song, harmony and instrumental music from all over the world; there are the great composers - Beethoven, Bach, Purcell, Mozart and more; the legends of the modern day and how they added their changes; Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and John Cage. Music comes to life through this book deriving from an eight-part television series of the same name by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Illustrated with numerous black and white and colour pictures.