Download or read book Music of the Whole Earth written by David Benedict Reck and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1977 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary book explores the richness of sound, instruments, and music from the world's astonishing variety of cultural and musical traditions. David Reck is one of the few musical scholars to realize that music can be broken down into a few basic ideas, and to show how those ideas manifest themselves in disparate cultures. Here he discusses the similarities and differences between the Western oboe and the Indian shehnai, between our large orchestras and Bali's gamelans, between a Mozart symphony, a Japanese noh drama, and a Tibetan chant.