San Antonio College Library

A collection of solo and chamber compositions written between 2004 and 2011. Featuring ensembles and individuals from England, Canada and the United States, these works offer an exciting variation in instrumentation: solo piano, trio, two quartets, quintet, and sextet including woodwind, brass, percussion and strings.

Chronologically arranged, the book covers some 25,000 years of cultural history. It starts with the whirring bones and clay drums of the Stone Age and concludes with the chance music and electronic synthesizers of the modern era. The reader is carried along in a grand sweep, from the magical-sacred beginnings of music, the primitive pipe and "bull-roarer," through the instruments of antiquity, the experiments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,...