A Little History of Music

From the rhythm of a mother's heartbeat to the rebellious riffs of an electric guitar. From mammoth bone flutes to the soundtracks of Star Wars. All this is music - the code of humanity, encrypted in sounds.
The outstanding musicologist Robert Philip invites you on an incredible journey through 40 thousand years of musical history. On the pages of this book, forgotten melodies of ancient civilizations come to life, revolutionary styles and genres born at the crossroads of cultures, the stories of hundreds of geniuses who invented musical instruments, recorded sounds on paper and created true masterpieces.
Why did the medieval visions of Hildegard of Bingen influence the church's position on nunneries? How did the lute and other instruments from Central Asia conquer Europe? Who developed the blues, ragtime and jazz that shook secular social life? What's so special about Jimi Hendrix's performance of the US national anthem at Woodstock in 1969? This book is your ticket to a musical universe where every page is like a new track on a playlist that changed the history of mankind.