A History of the World in 50 Pieces
The Classical Music That Shapes Us
$46.04
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2026
Summary
Explore how music has changed our world through 50 pieces across classical, folk, and world traditions with BBC presenter Tom Service, in this official Radio 3 compendium.
Music transports us and defines us. As a form of expression, it has been passed down through oral tradition, musical notation, and recordings in a chain of connection that spans the globe, across the millennia. A History of the World in 50 Pieces follows that chain, collating 50 pieces of classical music th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785949371 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1785949373 |
| Author: | Tom Service |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | BBC Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 518g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 160mm x 240mm |
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Tom Service
Tom Service presents the Saturday Morning programme and the New Music Show for BBC Radio 3. He wrote and presented 250 editions of The Listening Service and hosted Music Matters from 2003.
His writing about music has appeared in The Guardian. He was Gresham Professor of Music from 2018-19 and Guest Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2005.
He has made films for the BBC about composers from Mozart to Saariaho, and has been part of the radio and TV coverage of the BBC Proms for more than twenty years. His previous books include Music as Alchemy: Journeys with Great Conductors and their Orchestras, and Full of Noises, interviews with the composer Thomas Adès.
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