Music and Some Highly Musical People: Containing Brief Chapters on I. a Description of Music. II. the Music of Nature. III. a Glance at the History of

by James M Trotter

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

550 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1969

Reviews

[Jeff Crompton · Rating 2 out of 5]

I gave up on this one halfway through - it was just too boring and poorly written to finish. I had been interested in reading Trotter's book for years, since the meat of the 1878 book is a series of sketches of 19th-century African-American musicians, making it one of the first books about black music in America.

But the writing is so florid and non-specific that it's meaningless, and most of the biographical sketches are filled with endless quotes from newspaper articles praising the subjects. I wanted to learn something and to enjoy myself in the process; I did learn a little bit, but it was just too painful to continue. I can only rate this book one star for the writing and content, but I'll add a star for its historic importance.