Sophie’s Reviews > The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century > Status Update

I’m reading about the American composers in late 19th/early 20th centuries. I had no idea about the ties between classical and jazz… very interesting!

Slowly making progress…

Good, but so dense! I feel like I’m partaking in a reason marathon.

Very well written, but so dense! I’m trying to read this for the third time now. Hopefully third time lucky. I think this book could benefit from an accompanying text explaining to those like myself without a musical background how the keys and chords work and what they sound like… or maybe a basic playlist of keys and chords like you might give to a beginning music student?