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Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven made drama out of harmony itself, Rosen shows, with tension and resolution shaping every movement. A concert pianist wrote it, and it changed how musicians hear the whole period.
Dyer imagines his way into the nights of jazz musicians, Lester Young after the army broke him and Thelonious Monk alone at a piano, inventing scenes to reach what no biography can.
Still the sharpest book written about rock and roll. Marcus treats Elvis, Robert Johnson, and Sly Stone as American artists on the scale of Melville, reading their records for what America is.