| Music Since the First World War Revised Edition Contributor(s): Whittall, Arnold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198165331 ISBN-13: 9780198165330 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1995 Annotation: This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century. In a concise and accessible narrative, Whittall examines the continued but declining commitment to tonality, twelve-note serialism, and the gradual emergence of new aesthetic attitudes and concepts of musical form. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | History & Criticism - General - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical |
| Dewey: 780.904 |
| LCCN: 95002446 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.09" W x 7.8" (0.44 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century. In a concise and accessible narrative, Whittall examines the continued but declining commitment to tonality, twelve-note serialism, and the gradual emergence of new aesthetic attitudes and concepts of musical form. |