The Story of Music: Musical Instruments and Technology Book Review

Flanders, Julian. The Story Of Music: Musical Instruments and Technology. 1st. 9.Danbury. Connecticut: Grolier Educational, 2001. 1-80. Print

Kayla Emerton

2nd Period

March 15, 2011

Overview:

Author- Flanders, JulianTitle- The Story of Music: Musical Instruments and Technology

Type of Book- Nonfiction

This book is supposed to mention the history of music and musical instruments as well.

Purpose:

The Author’s Purpose- the purpose is to inform readers about how musical instruments have formed and the technology used to create the sound effects in a song. The intended audience can be anyone who is interested in music and its history, and also the technology to change the sound in a song.

Background information:

Julian Flanders was an Editorial Director at Butler and Tanner, and Editorial Manager at Carlton Brooks, and an Editorial Manager at BBC Books, Flanders’ past schools were University of Kent, and Cranbrook School.

Evaluation:

Describe the book: This book is interesting in many ways because of the information it displays page after page. It mentions all kinds of instruments from a long time ago that weren’t even used as instruments.

Respond to the author's opinions: To be perfectly honest, I agree with anything that this author/editor says in the book. Sometimes at home, I research more information about something I learn from the book. Some parts of that research, I find that in the book, and realize that I and the author are on the same page; that Flanders must have did some research as well, and it was true. There was not one thing that I disagreed with Julian Flanders on.

Relate your argument to other books or authors: The author of ‘the story of music’ nonfiction series is fabulous. There is no way to not agree to anything that Flanders has in the books. Authors, who are interested in making a nonfiction music book, read ‘the story of music’ series and enjoy it as well; authors might actually learn a thing or two that they didn’t know before.

Relate the book to larger issues: This book affected me by learning more about music since I don’t have a music class this year. Usually I thought that learning about music was boring because of my past music teachers; now that I have read this book, I find learning about music quite interesting, and would want to learn more. There might be a possibility that I would want to do something with my career that deals with music and musical instruments.

This book was quite useful; now I have a better understanding of the history of music and technology.

Comment:

This book was absolutely amazing; not boring at all and it is extremely interesting. I may have said this once in the book review I did, but I just find it fascinating that some instruments we use today were not used for music in the old times. I give this book five stars!