New Ears for New Music: Translated by Kenneth Chalmers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783631633793)

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century's intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist and author Constantin Floros provides a survey of the different styles and tendencies in new music, presenting the most important composers from Schoenberg to Rihm in a series of fluent and readable essays that will appeal to connoisseurs and non-specialists alike. For Floros, music and biography are inseparable, and here he puts music in the context of the social and psychological background of its time.

Author: Constantin Floros
ISBN-10: 3631633793
ISBN-13: 9783631633793
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2014
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 0.70d