The Music of Man

by Yehudi Menuhin, Curtis W. Davis

Celebrates man's musical heritage from prehistory to the electronic age, from the Australian outback and African bush to the cultural capitals of the West, and from the flute to the synthesizer

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, History

320 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1984

About the author

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He also served to help popularize yoga in the West by arranging for B.K.S. Iyengar to teach throughout Europe in the 1950s.

In 1993, he was made a life peer, as Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey, U.K.

Reviews

[Michael Kerjman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Educative information about a place music posseses in the history of humanhood.
Well illustrated and informative.