Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction

Comprehensive, authoritative, and engagingly written, this is one of the History of Music Series aimed at fulfilling the needs of Students. This is a work of solid scholarship that is eminently readable, with significant insights into music as part of the general, intellectual and cultural life of man. The contents of this book deal primarily and directly with music ideas and materials, in terms of the greatest variety and richness of ideas and expression. The creative development of musical ideas in the past 65 years understood against and as distinct from the past, in the variety and unity of its own internal growth and in its potential for the future. A richness itself characteristic of the twentieth Century music experience., ISBN13: B001JQH2R8 ISBN10: B001JQH2R8 Material Type: paperback