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A guide to 20th-century music, which includes information on composers, conflicting ideologies and personalities, and clearly explains compositional techniques. It assesses the merits of jazz and rock, and their role in musical evolution. It also attacks the elitism that encouraged some composers to ignore audiences, and the commercialism that prompted others to write for the lowest common denominator.
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20th century music has been remarkable for its pluralism. The various styles - atonality, neo-classicism, nationalism, serialism, jazz, computer music, minimalism, electronics, folklorism, "happenings", sheer chance - have been far from monolithic, and experimentation has been, perhaps, the century's only defining feature. With over 2500 entries, The Companion to 20th-Century Music is the first book to comprehensively define and applaud this diversity. Norman Lebrecht celebrates variety and innovation, assessing composers and musicians according to artistic merit rather than ideological or institutional eminence. He states that his purpose is "to demythologize, to enlighten, and to entertain", so he writes in a readable, narrative style, free of jargon and abbreviations. The end result is the perfect companion to the music of our time.
About the Author:
Norman Lebrecht is the author of The Maestro Myth, The Book of Musical Anecdotes, and a number of other books on music, and is the editor of Mahler Remembered. He has made several documentaries and has covered the music world for London's Sunday Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He lives in London.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0671710192
- ISBN 13 9780671710194
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages400
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