Triumph of music : composer, musicians and their audiences, 1700 to the present /
by Tim, Blanning.
- 1st ed.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- x, 416 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-352) and index.
Status : you are a God-man, the true artist by God's grace -- Purpose : music is the most romantic of all the arts -- Places and spaces : from palace to stadium -- Technology : from Stradivarius to Stratocaster -- Liberation : nation, people, sex.