books.google.com - A distinguished historian chronicles the rise of music and musicians in the West from lowly balladeers to masters employed by fickle patrons, to the great composers of genius, to today’s rock stars. How, he asks, did music progress from subordinate status to its present position of supremacy among...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Triumph_of_Music.html?id=6RptffQRvEEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Triumph of Music
