Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198166849)

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

Author: Arnold Whittall
ISBN-10: 0198166842
ISBN-13: 9780198166849
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2000
Pages: 426
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d