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      Paperback Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: The Twentieth Century Book
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      ISBN: 039396700X

      ISBN13: 9780393967005

      Source Readings in Music History: 20th Century (Source Readings Vol. 7)

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      Twentieth-century music has been described as complex, vital, diverse, uncertain, experimental, self-conscious, innovative-the list is long and growing. Composers have been both credited with and accused of always searching for something "new," writing works that are mechanistic but romantic, meaningful but unskilled, beautiful but ugly! In The Twentieth Century, Robert P. Morgan helps us grasp the flavor of the era by presenting forty-five readings from the period, nearly all written by active participants in the musical developments of the time. Thus we tune in to the voices of some thirty composers-from Busoni to Babbitt, Ives to Xenakis, Satie to Stravinsky-and learn from performers Anderson and Landowska, philosopher-critics Adorno, Dahlhaus, and Meyer, and writers Cocteau, Barthes, and Eco.

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      Arts, Music & Photography Education & Reference History History & Criticism Humanities Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Music Musical Genres Performing Arts Reference

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      Like the previous 6 volumes in this series, vol. 7 is the definitive collection of musical essays from this time period. Deciding what to include in this volume must have been a very difficult task since there is so much more material available from the 20th century than from previous time periods; and since the editors produced this volume so chronologically near the 20th century, it is impossible to know which readings will...

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