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A Whistle-Stop Tour of Western Music History

A thousand years in six eras, read the way an engineer would read it — as a sequence of moments when a technology or an institution changed, and the music changed to match.

Topic
Music Theory
Level
Intermediate
Format
Guide
Time
13 min

This is not a list of important composers — that is a lifetime of listening and there are better guides to it. It is a sequence of moments when the rules changed, and it is arranged around a question an engineer is well placed to ask: what changed first? Because in almost every case, the music changed because a technology or an institution changed, and the music followed.

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