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Modern music : a concise history /
Beginning at the threshold of the modern era, with the late Romanticism of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music through composers such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese and Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Philip Glass and...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Thames and Hudson,
c1994.
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Series: | World of art.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Prelude
- Ch. 2. The late Romantic background
- Ch. 3. New harmony
- Ch. 4. New rhythm, new form
- Ch. 5. The genius of place
- Ch. 6. Neoclassicism
- Ch. 7. Serialism
- Ch. 8. The modern world
- Ch. 9. To the east
- Ch. 10. Serialism continued
- Ch. 11. Electronics
- Ch. 12. Chance
- Ch. 13. The theatre and politics
- Ch. 14. Minimalism and multiplicity.