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‘Brilliantly readable and bursting with insight, wit and wisdom. Ford is a master storyteller’
MICHAEL SPITZER, author of The Musical Human

‘A wonderful read… as erudite as it is enjoyable; as riveting as it is revelatory. Andrew Ford’s history of music may be short, but it is deep. With the lightest of touches, he has excavated many layers of human history and global culture... A highly readable (and persuasive) thesis of what music is, why it exists and how we couldn’t survive without it. Indispensable’
CLEMENCY BURTON-HILL, bestselling author of Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day

‘Ford’s historical and technical knowledge is vast, the depth of his research astounding… This book is fascinating, broad and (like all good histories) has humanity at its centre.’
LUCY HICKS BEACH, Prospect Magazine

‘If it was translated into a score this would say the word “allegro” at the top. But The Shortest History of Music never feels rushed… Sometimes brevity allows boldness.’
TEDDY JAMIESON, The Herald

‘Ambitious… There is something undeniably impressive about both Ford’s compressed marshalling of such varied material and his desire to make connections sing across different musical cultures.’
FLORA WILLSON, Times Literary Supplement

‘Impressively engaging given the highly compressed format... There’s much to recommend in this book: a refreshingly non-European starting point … and pithy, thought-provoking statements and quotations which drive his energetic prose.’
KATY HAMILTON, BBC Music Magazine

'Exhilarating… evokes a world of creative destruction where rules were made, broken and remade… Note to prospective readers: stop and listen to any piece that is mentioned more than once. It will deepen the experience profoundly… The Shortest History of Music is an achievement in brevity and balance’
The Saturday Paper

‘A top-notch critic... our answer to America’s Alex Ross’
Rolling Stone

‘Andrew Ford is the most literate of composers; the most musical of writers’
Australian Book Review