Description A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today's rock stars.
How, he asks, did music progress from subordinate status to its present position of supremacy among the creative arts? Mozart was literally booted out of the service of the Archbishop of Salzburg with a kick to my arse, as he expressed it.
Yet, less than a hundred yea.
Belknap Press The triumph of music: the rise of composers, musicians and their art, paperback/tim blanning
