The Enjoyment of Music (Essential Listening Edition) 2nd Ed

A must having concise book, that one for buying, turn your PC off and read on the sofa, most of the posted books are very interesting, but when comes from English we know that exists a very heavy powerful publisher industry that needs to spread books for anything, be aware, that, when you see the word PUBLISHER on these books, they are really not trustable, of course many authors are wonderful, but, when you read the word EDITION or EDITOR, you'll know that the book was read by both professionals in that specific area and idiom corrector and spell checkers, then the book get 99% perfect and trustable.
There are millions of publishers in the world, you can publish anything by them, they don't want to know what about you have written, but not an EDITOR, just few in the world, an editor cares about their enterprise image, and often will say NO to accept pubishing your poor book. There are too few EDITORS in the world. The most reliable are the French, Spanish, German, Austrian and the British, the orient side of the globe I do not know.

For example the Spanish Encyclopedia Altaya for Music from Spain is really trustable, tranlated for many languages, a hard to find book.

The American books on Blues, Big Bands, American Rock and Country, and the Jazz are the most trustable ones, they are near their proper history and are able to write more precisely, but, the Brisith Eric Hobsbawm wrote the best book for Jazz, he just read all the books about jazz and analyzed the incoherence and misguided fantasies of some white authors who defended their own interests by placing the music of african-descendants aside, he did so, a much more real overview of what it is Jazz.

Is the same as reading something about Japan, who could speak better and what feltl in their own skin are the Japanese own, not a book written by Europeans.

That's why I take great care when choosing about classical music, it is good to remember that the great achievements of this genre arise in Austria, Germany, Italy, France and Spain with a wide Arabic influence, that developed a fascinating music, but, in the nineteenth century Russia explodes in musical culture of the highest rank, while the late England matter, imported books, sheet music and German musicians like Händel, and of course later developed fascinating musicians such as the extraordinary Elgar, although some countries do not accept Britten as a great composer, I see him as a major contributor and supporter in music, while Dunstable learned everything from Italian music and adpted to the English music, that are played when the royal family is presented.


Since there are billions of things to read, then take care what about 'the publishing companies' you read, prefer the Editors. Read less, but quality content.