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     A Concise History of Western Music

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 2006     ISBN: 9780521842945 (hardback), 9780521133661 (paperback)

‘Hidden behind the deadpan title is an extremely rich and thoughtful text: a concise history, as it says on the tin, but also a warm meditation on the philosophy of music . . . There is a general disdain for snobbery, and flashes of gossipy black humour . . .  Each chapter culminates in a subtle cliff-hanger, and the whole thing reads exquisitely, as a story whose ending is as yet unwritten.’ (Steven Poole, The Guardian)

‘ . . . elegant and highly readable style . . . thought-provoking, compelling and remarkably comprehensive narrative . . .  this is easily one of the most thought-provoking, enjoyable and stimulating reads on Western music to have been published in the past ten years.’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘This is an adroit and knowing book . . . Griffiths finds graceful ways of saying the conventional things that have to be said and of slipping in the less conventional . . . In conclusion we have a fresh formulation of the riddle of past and present, and the future.’ (Joseph Kerman, New York Review of Books)



     Breve storia della musica occidentale

Einaudi, Firenze, 2007     ISBN: 9788806185329

traduzione di Fulvia De Colle

‘Il volumetto ha un potere di trasmissione di concetti chiari ed essenziali che lo renderà sicuramente anche in Italia, come già lo è per i lettori anglosassoni, un best seller presso tutti gli appassionati di musica . . . E tuttavia, la lettura delle lapidarie definizioni di Griffiths, uomo di cultura vasta e viva (come dimostrano le citazioni di vari meccanismi dell’orologeria di tutti i tempi), non potranno che fare del bene in una popolazione scolastica pericolosamente incline alla totale ignoranza umanistica.’ (Dinko Fabris, Il giornale della musica)



     História Concisa de Música Ocidental

Bizâncio, Lisboa, 2007     ISBN: 9789725303528

tradução de Maria Carvalho



     Geschichte der Musik: vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart

J.B. Metzler, Mainz, 2008     ISBN: 9783476021007

Übersetzung von Corinna Steinbach und Stephanie Staudacher

‘Das Besondere an der Herangehensweise von Griffiths ist, dass Musikgeschichte nicht als bloße chronologische Abfolge einander bedingender Ereignisse geschildert wird, sondern - was viel zutreffender ist - als gleichzeitiges Auftauchen ästhetisch an sich ungleichzeitiger Phänomene. Wer nicht nur Wissen anhäufen, sondern Musikgeschichte wirklich verstehen will, wird sich bei der Lektüre von Griffiths’ Buch gut aufgehoben fühlen.’ (Richard Eckstein, crescendo)   



     Breve historia de la música occidental

Ediciones Akal, Madrid, 2009     ISBN: 9788446027805

traducción de José Alberto Pérez Diéz



     Bati müziginin kisa tarihi

Türkiye Is Bankasi Kültür Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2010     ISBN: 9789944887939

 

çeviren: M. Halim Spatar

 

 

 

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