Book Spine Poetry vol. 4: Music
by Maria PopovaThe essence of the universal language, distilled.
I’ve been celebrating National Poetry Month with an ongoing series of book spine poetry. Today, a short meditation of a “poem” on music.
The books:
- Music: Ways of Listening by composer Elliott Schwartz, the source of this fantastic vintage guide to the 7 essential skills for listening to music
- Stylized by Mark Garvey, who tells the “slightly obsessive” story of Strunk and White’s iconic The Elements of Style
- Persuasion, the recent annotated edition of the Jane Austen classic
Catch up on the first three installments, entitled The Future, Get Smarter, and This is New York.
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