Strunk's Source Readings in Music History, Vol.7

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ISBN: 9780393967005
author: Robert Morgan
book format: Paperback
publishing house: W. W. Norton & Company
publication date: 1997 -9
language: English
binding: Paperback

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The Twentieth Century

Robert Morgan   

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This book began as an attempt to carry out a suggestion made in 1929 by Carl Engel in his "Views and Reviews"-to fulfill his wish for " a living record of musical personalities, events, conditions, tastes ...a history of music faithfully and entirely carved from contemporary accounts. 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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Link: https://dufs.itinerariummentis.org/book/Oliver%20Strunk/Strunk's%20Source%20Readings%20in%20Music%20History%20Vol.7%20The%2020th%20Century%20-%20Robert%20P.%20Morgan.pdf

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