In one corner; a godless young warrior; Voltairersquo;s heralded lsquo;philosopher-kingrsquo;; the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other; a devout if bad-tempered old composer of lsquo;outdatedrsquo; music; a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age.Behind the pomp and flash; Prussias Frederick the Great was a tormented man; son of an abusive king who forced him to watch as his best friend (probably his lover) was beheaded. In what may have been one of historys crueler practical jokes; Frederick challenged lsquo;old Bachrsquo; to a musical duel; asking him to improvise a six-part fugue based on an impossibly intricate theme (possibly devised for him by Bachs own son).Bach left the court fuming; but in a fever of composition; he used the coded; alchemical language of counterpoint to write lsquo;A Musical Offeringrsquo; in response. A stirring declaration of faith; it represented lsquo;as stark a rebuke of his beliefs and world view as an absolute monarch has ever received;rsquo; Gaines writes. It is also one of the great works of art in the history of music.Set at the tipping point between the ancient and the modern world; the triumphant story of Bachs victory expands to take in the tumult of the eighteenth century: the legacy of the Reformation; wars and conquest; the birth of the Enlightenment. Brimming with originality and wit; lsquo;Evening in the Palace of Reasonrsquo; is history of the best kind ndash; intimate in scale and broad in its vision.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. BEST TAB BOOK FOR BEGINNERS TO INTERMEDIATE... EVER !By ZOMBIESCIENTISTTHIS IS AN ACCURATE AND EASY TO FOLLOW GUITAR TAB BOOK . IF YOU WANNA SOUND LIKE TONY IOMMI THEN YOURE GONNA DIG THIS BIG TIME . THE FIRST SONG I LEARNED WAS IRON MAN FROM THIS BOOK DECADES AGO . THE THING THATS GREAT FOR A BEGINNING GUITARIST IS YOU WILL SOUND GREAT BUT THESE SONGS ARE EASY TO LEARN .! I EVEN LEARNED ALMOST THE WHOLE BOOK ... . NOW GO FORTH ... AND ROCK TO THE TOP !!!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. PRECISE TO THE POINT OF METICULOUSBy C. A. FosterA lot of tab books are terrible; but this one is pretty well made. Of course it is a nightmare untangling Tony Iommis weird phrasing--how does he make one lick sound so eternal; I cannot deliver it so poignantly--but this book lays it out clearly and most of the tabs are right.They say; never listen to anything but your own ear when you learn a song; but this person had a very credible ear.There is another tab book out there with a live photo of the band bowing for an audience: this tab book is poorly done; and as you listen to the song you will say "without a doubt this string of tablature was just written onto the wrong strings." This book thankfully does not have as many; if any; technical mistakes. Plus many books will lazily say "guitar tuned down one step" but that is not true... it is almost always one and a half; or C# tuning. This book says C# when it is actually so.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Big FanBy Tom WExcellent tab book. Clear and easy to understand for rhythm and lead guitar. Highly recommended for those interested in quickly learning some Black Sabbath tunes. Written better than most other tablature I have purchased in the past. I have only been playing for a couple of years and this book uses the simplest power chords where appropriate; making it much easier to learn quickly. I am a big Black Sabbath fan and now I am a big fan of this tab book.
