solitude sunday

solitude sunday. our day to spend time with a book. my read is howard goodall's the story of music from babylon to the beatles: how music has shaped civilization. in the first paragraph of the introduction the author writes, "...everything that had to be discovered to produce music, its chords, melodies and rhythms-- had already been discovered by around 1450". and i thought, oh! but what has been done with chords, melodies and rhythms since. what are you reading? share your book with the whimsey project.