This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature. Every society in history has produce

In The Necessity of Music, Celia Applegate explores the many ways that Germans thought about and made music from the eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries. Rather

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