![]() ![]() How Ross crams it all in is miraculous, especially when you consider that he can't have a starting date of 1900 (or 1901) you can't understand the context of a great deal of 20th-century music without knowing Wagner, for instance. ![]() (There is no musical notation in its 600-odd pages.) It won the Guardian First Book award, and rightly so it's the kind of book anyone can read who, as Beecham said about the English, doesn't know much about music but likes the noise it makes. The only ones better than it which take a similarly broad view of music that I can think of are Charles Rosen's The Classical Style, which might be too technical for the general reader (you have to be able to read music to get the most out of it) and Richard Crawford's America's Musical Life, which is so good it's unfair to compare anything else to it.īut The Rest is Noise performs the remarkable trick of making what may be considered abstruse musical matters widely accessible. ![]()
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