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fiver07's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
This is a slow read with a lot of information presented in a stream of consciousness. That is not a bad thing but I would recommend putting pen and paper next to you. The protagonist music professor Franz Ritter has a tendency to name a lot of (existing) musicians, authors, historians and songs and if you want to understand it all at the time of reading, you would have to look it up/listening to the songs.
In his musings of his life you learn not only about music history but since it is his specialty westernized oriental music history, the influence on western culture on the orient and the literature it is based on. The episodes he spents on his travels give a european scholarly view of the turbulent time of revolution.
It is not a deep dive into eastern history and oriental literature but a good starting point if you are interested in it.
In his musings of his life you learn not only about music history but since it is his specialty westernized oriental music history, the influence on western culture on the orient and the literature it is based on. The episodes he spents on his travels give a european scholarly view of the turbulent time of revolution.
It is not a deep dive into eastern history and oriental literature but a good starting point if you are interested in it.
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