Author: Alfred William Cramer
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain...these are the people who helped shape the history of music. Their stories and others are told in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. This five volume set offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre imaginable, from Accordion Players to Musical Theater Composers to World Music, and everything in between.
Author: Ton de Leeuw
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9053567658
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.
Author: Patrick Kavanaugh
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0310208068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a compelling and inspiring look at spiritual beliefs that influenced some of the world's greatest composers, now revised and expanded with eight additional composers.
Author: Jane Weiner LePage
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lepage's latest volume comprises eighteen biographies.
Author: William W. Austin
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1966-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393333893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the principal aims of this vast panorama of musical composition in the twentieth century is to arouse in the reader a thirst for contemporary music and to share with him the author's knowledge of and enthusiasm for the many masterworks in different styles that our century has already produced. The emphasis is on the development of the various styles to be found in the music of our time.
Author: David McCleery
Publisher: Naxos Audio Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781843792376
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Free website with music available, to access see page 4.
Author: Bryan R. Simms
Publisher: Schirmer G Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Composers on Modern Musical Culture focuses on issues of composition and style through a collection of original writings by major 20th century composers. Students are engaged by the wide spectrum of issues and composers that are represented.
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-10-16
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1429932880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In 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 labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.