Book about music

“The Book of Music” is not only a dashed and monumental story of European music, where music and musicians - from heroes of myths to modern composers and listeners - argue with geography, politics, science, urban planning, morality, psychology and create their own versions of the universe. This is also an album, a route map and a cardiogram of the intimate and social experience of people and states, as well as a guide to the state of affairs in the industry: festivals, orchestras, labels, streaming services and not only. This is also a brief catalog of old terms and new evidence of the musical obsession with contemporaries - artists, writers, directors, managers. And finally, this is a story about how music becomes the subject of admiration and investigation, poetization and analysis, in other words, sounds