This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature. This book analyses the stylistic changes in music from the emergence of ‘tonality’ in the late seventeenth century until the Second World War.
Sabby Sagall is a former Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London, UK. He writes regularly for the Socialist Review and Socialist Worker, and is the author of Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism, and Genocide (2013).
1. The Necessity of Music.- 2. The Late Baroque Style.- 3. The Classical Style.- 4. The Romantic Style.- 5. The Modernist Style.
