San Antonio College Library

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,...