Musical composition in the twentieth century / Arnold Whittall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whittall, Arnold.

Contributor:

Whittall, Arnold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Composers--History--20th century.

Local Subjects:

Composers--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

vi, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

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, Bart'ok, Messiaen, Tippett, and Ligeti, are framed by more concise sketches of a range of twentieth-century composers from Faur'e to Wolfgang Rihm. Extensive musical examples are employed throughout.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Music since the First World War.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [398]-407) and index.

Related Work:

Whittall, Arnold. Music since the First World War.

ISBN:

0198166842

0198166834

OCLC:

42592948