Tim Blanning’s The Triumph of Music is a history about music. No theory required — none on offer! Rather, a social history of music in the West. And a very readable history it is!

I learned almost nothing from this book in the way of facts, but the facts that I know where provocatively rearranged and presented from the other end, as it were, of the telescope.

By the way, Mr Blanning’s title is not, you will note, The Triumph of Good Music.

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