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Feb 14, 2022 · The book's main chapters provide a overview and history of music in the western world; starting with an introductory chapter about the 'fundamental' of music and proceeding chronologically from the music of the middle ages through popular music in the US in the 20th century.
- Music in the Twentieth Century
- David Clarke
- M. J. Grant
- Rachel Beckles Willson
- Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
- Acknowledgements
general editor Arnold Whittall This series offers a wide perspective on music and musical life in the twentieth century. Books included range from historical and biographical studies concentrating particularly on the context and circumstances in which composers were writing, to analytical and critical studies concerned with the nature of musical la...
The Music and Thought of Michael Tippett: Modern Times and Metaphysics
Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe
Ligeti, Kurt ́ag, and Hungarian Music during the Cold War
Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
was drawn to the “Music in the Twentieth Century” series by the prospect of working with the series editor Arnold Whittall. As I had hoped, Professor Whittall had much to say during the production of the manuscript. Another voice is always welcome in the solitude of scholarly writing. It is especially so when the book, like this one, ventures new v...
Identify key stylistic attributes of twentieth-century modernist music. Compare and contrast the stylistic characteristics of different movements in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, including impressionism, expressionism, primitivism, neoclassicism, minimalism, and post-minimalism.
Nov 13, 2019 · From Music to Sound is an examination of the six musical histories whose convergence produces the emergence of sound, offering a plural, original history of new music and showing how music had begun a change of paradigm, moving from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound.
- Makis Solomos
- 2019
Aug 20, 2018 · By the early fifties, Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry were creating collages that incorporated recordings of train engines and other urban sounds; Karlheinz Stockhausen was assisting in the...
Editors: Till Bovermann, Alberto de Campo, Hauke Egermann, Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo, Stefan Weinzierl. Explores the many different types and forms of contemporary musical instruments. Contributes to a better understanding of the conditions of instrumentality in the 21st century.
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From Debussy to this early 21st century, sound has become one of the major wagers of music. Music had begun a change of paradigm, going from a culture centred on the note to a culture of sound. It could be wagered that this radical change is at least as founding as the revolution that gave birth to tonality.
