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ABBA LET THE MUSIC SPEAK | 
| Author: Christopher Patrick
Creator: Carl Magnus Palm
Publisher: Christopher Patrick
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 769457
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1ST
Pages: 420
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 064649676X
EAN: 9780646496764
ASIN: 064649676X
Publication Date: 2008
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Product Description
More than 30 years after the stunning 1974 Eurovision Song Contest debut of the Swedish musical supergroup, ABBAs music remains a benchmark which continues to enthral millions of fans around the world both on stage and screen as well as on vinyl and disc.
In this equally stunning tour de force, Australian cellist and arranger Chris Patrick has combined his life-long passion for ABBA with his professional musical career skills to create this guide to ABBAs soundscape the vocal and keyboard genius of Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Frida, and the precision audio engineering of Michael B Tretow and his team of arrangers which continues to defy truly successful emulation to this day.
With his lively and engaging writing style, Chris takes the reader on a personally-guided tour to quote Foreword writer and ABBA biographer Carl Magnus Palm over the hills of joyful exuberance, through the valleys of melancholy and along the stretched-out roads of craftsmanship where their music was created.
But the musically illiterate among us need not worry Chris pulls out all the stops in his professional skills case and encourages the lay reader along with much simpler note numbering and sol-fa examples of ABBAs genius ... and if you understood where Julie Andrews was going when she sang Lets start at the very beginning ... then you will be quite at ease in the pages of this book as well.
A comprehensive Glossary of musical terms used, a Selected Discography of the essential ABBA albums, and a detailed Index complete the book, but before we get to the end, there is almost another book-within-the-book first The world of ABBA timeline!
Writing for a market which includes ABBA fans today who may not even have been born when Agnetha, Benny, Björn and Frida were at their height, Chris has provided a fascinating snapshot of the 1960s, 70s and 80s of what in the world was happening at the time.
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A Peek Beyond the Kitsch August 11, 2009
M. Mendenhall (Phoenix AZ Rocky Ford CO)
Christopher Patrick does a good job of covering ABBA's catalog with obvious admiration. His point is to look closely at what it is about ABBA that makes them so timeless and enduring (and whatever it is, it is found in the recordings). He gives them the respect they've been due for 35 years. Patrick is a classically trained musician and this lends credence to his case.
Patrick recognizes the elegance innate in the ABBA catalog. He also recognizes the sadness looming through their music, quite the opposite of their chirpy image. Patrick's book is a serious look at a group often taken for granted and dismissed as beneath "art." Patrick dispels that notion, using his expertise to point out musically significant artistry. His best analysis is when he writes about the vocals and the harmonies; he is able to explain why ABBA's music is so affecting in terms that anyone can grasp while still experiencing the depth of what he purports.
One would hope that, as good as ABBA - LET THE MUSIC SPEAK is, this marks only the beginning of critically giving credit where credit is due. Maybe more books will emerge that look at ABBA as more than just bell bottom wearing teenyboppers which they surely were not. Patrick's insights will prove genuinely fascinating to those who have not already "studied" the group as fervently as some of us do. And for us, his book is a sort of public recognition that we ABBA fans were right all along.
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