Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975, surveying the immense variety of technical developments in twentieth-century music.
Sections of detailed analysis, with particular emphasis on such major figures as Stravinsky, Bartók, Messiaen, Tippett, and Ligeti, are framed by more concise sketches of a range of twentieth-century composers from Fauré to Wolfgang Rihm. Extensive musical examples are employed throughout.


Author: Arnold Whittall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/11/2000
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.15w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780198166832

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