- Published: 2 December 2013
- ISBN: 9780099587170
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $37.99
The Story of Music
- Published: 2 December 2013
- ISBN: 9780099587170
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $37.99
A lively zip through some 45 milennia
Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
Goodall is an engaging and erudite guide and this work is both accessible and illuminating
Caroline Jowett, Daily Express
Great length but still leavened with lively wit
Sameer Rahim, Telegraph
[Goodall] knows his stuff, and tells it well
Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Highly knowledgeable, and a brilliant communicator, Goodall has an infectious enthusiasm and is genuinely respectful of all forms of music
Good Book Guide
An accessible guide to roughly 42,000 years of music in just over 300 pages that manages neither to sacfrifice precise detail nor pugnacious opinion ... Goodall is unfailingly acute ... a clever, engaging read
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
There is a Jumpin’ Jack Flash liveliness in Goodall’s approach
Iain Finlayson, The Times
He starts right at the beginning, with 25,000-year-old bone flutes ... It's a huge brief, made huger by Goodall's alertness to new thinking in scholarly circles, and his fondness for interesting asides ... a racily written, learned and often shrewdly insightful book
Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph (Review)
A roller-coaster ride, which Goodall tells with verve... a racily written, learned and often shrewdly insightful book
Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph
Who better to demystify the origins of music and trace the evolution of this most universal of artistic disciplines?
Neil Norman, Express
The Story of Music is a lively zip through some 45 millennia … jumping back and forth between classical, folk and pop
Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
An accessible guide to roughly 42,000 years of music in just over 300 pages … The Story of Music is a clever, engaging read
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Howard Goodall’s beautifully clear and compelling account is both a hymn to human endeavour and a groundbreaking map of man’s musical journey
Wiltshire News
A clear and compelling account which is a hymn to human endeavor and a groundbreaking musical journey
Kirkham & Fylde
Fascinating – as well as illuminating on how music works
The Lady
Now comes Howard Goodall and all of everyone's prayers are answered ... He is sharply witty and entirely on the ball, but he never acts the smart ass and, most importantly, he obviously has deep knowledge of what he is talking about ... I prophesy that it will not only win prizes but change lives
Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph
Goodall's distinguisihing gift is his ability to explain the mechanics of music instead of gliding hastily over them. He is fearless in unknotting those medieval mysteries of oranum and isorhythms, as well as chords, triads, fugues, keys, equal temperament, atonality, dodecaphony and blues
Fiona Maddocks, Spectator
At his best, Goodall has a facility for lively shorthand…
Adam Mars-Jones, Guardian
This ambitious and all embracing history of 40, 000 years of music will have you dancing in the aisles
Sally Morris, Daily Mail