| Book Reviews
The Inner Game of Music -- Barry Green
& W. Timothy Galloway.
The premise of this book is somebody that
writes boks about self-improvement & zen in sports can write the same
type of book about music. So I guess it's successful in that the
book was written, but I don't know how much it can help someone.
Simon & Garfunkel: The Biography --
Victoria Kingston
I don't really care for the style of this
book. I'm not sure what it is about it, but I just read it to get
some questions answered. Simon & Garfunkel started playing
together as kids & as they started to really grow up the music became
the only thing they had in common. Garfunkel just sang songs &
Simon started to get jealous of people associating his songs with Garfunkel.
Still a mystery is why when Simon broke off his music got kinda bad.
Sleep, Two, Three, Four -- John Neufeld
I got this because it's some weird early
seventies anti-communist propoganda book by the same guy who did Lisa,
Bright & Dark. It's not as good nor entertaining as I
expected. It's about teenagers against a fascist regime. By
reading this review, you probably already wasted more time on the book
than you should have.
What to Listen for in Music -- Aaron Copland
This was originally written in 1939 to
help people understand & appreciate new music. It tells you a
little bit about forms & elements in constructing music in the classical
field & their histories. It also suggests if you don't like modern
music that means you're not listening to it enough. |