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|title=The Story of Music

|sort=Story of Music, The

|publisher=Vintage

|date=January 2013

|website=http://www.howardgoodall.co.uk/

|summary=A tour through 40,000 years of music from prehistoric times to the present, published to accompany the author's BBC TV series of the same title

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As an award-winning composer of choral music, film and TV scores and stage musicals, Howard Goodall is well qualified to write and present on the subject. Covering something which has flourished for over 40,000 years in every shape and form imaginable is no easy task, but in this book, written and published to accompany a recent six-part documentary series on BBC2, he has distilled the lot into a very enlightening chronological narrative in just over 300 pages.