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Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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A riotous, rambling and incomplete history of classical music,
complete with leg measurements. 'Hello, I'm Stephen Fry. Now time
for the first outing of a brand, spanking new feature here on The
Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music...putting some
unsuspecting figure in music under the spotlight.' In his
Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music, Stephen Fry
presents a potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of
classical music and the world as we know it. Along this musical
journey he casually throws in references to pretty much whatever
takes his fancy, from the Mongol invasion of Russia and Mr Khan
(Genghis to his friends), the founding of the MCC, the Black Death
(which once again became the new black in England), to the heady
revolutionary atmosphere of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the deep
doo-doo that Louis XVI got into (or 'du-du' as the French would
say). It's all here - Ambrose and early English plainsong, Bach,
Mozart (beloved of mobile phones everywhere), Beethoven, Debussy,
Wagner (the old romantic), right up to the present day.;
Entertaining and brilliantly written, this is a pretty reckless
romp of a history through classical music and much much mo
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