A concise anthology including a wide range of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Twenty-six carefully chosen works―including music by Claude Debussy, Kurt Weill, William Grant Still, Pauline Oliveros, and Chen Yi―offer representative examples of genres and composers of the period. Commentaries following each score present a careful analysis of the music, and online links to purchase and do... [Read More]
Technology has always been inseparable from the development of music. But in the twentieth century a rapid acceleration took place: a new "machine music" came into existence, electronic musical instruments appeared, and composers sometimes seemed more like sound technicians than musicians. In this book Hans-Joachim Braun and his co-authors offer a wide-ranging and fascinating look at the relationship of technology and modern music. Topics range from the role of Yamaha in Japan's musical development to the social construction of the synthesizer; from the player piano as precursor of computer mu... [Read More]
(Yorktown). Exploration of the language, attitude, dissonance, and drama of the piano music of our century as in the works of Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky, Piston, Ives, Ravel, Hindemith, and 35 other contemporary composers. Contents: ANTHEIL: Dog-Cat Polka * Winter Lullaby * BARTOK: Bagatelle, Op. 6, No. 2 * Bagatelle, Op. 6, No. 6 * Bear Dance * Dance from For Children, Book II * Dirge from For Children, Book II * Evening in the Country from Ten Easy Pieces * Lament from For Children, Book I * Play Tune from For Children, Book I * Sonatina (Bagpipe-Dance-Finale) * CASELLA: Carillon from Eleve... [Read More]
This volume contains the original full scores of three of the most popular modern violin concertos. Included are Sibelius's Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 — among the most played and recorded of all violin concertos; Elgar's Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61, a ravishing combination of bravura and sweetness; and Glazunov's Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 82, a masterpiece of lyricism and virtuosity that is considered one of the composer's finest works.Reproduced from authoritative European and Russian editions, all three scores are now available in this inexpensive one-volume score, ena... [Read More]
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the YearTime magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the lab... [Read More]
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