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Modern Music and After » Read Now
by Paul Griffiths. 373 pgs.

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...MODERN MUSIC AND AFTER MODERN MUSIC AND AFTER PAUL GRIFFITHS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS for Edmund...University Press maker First published by J.M. Dent Sons Ltd as Modern...
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A History of Modern Music » Read Now
by Paul Collaer, Sally Abeles. 416 pgs.

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...A HISTORY OF MODERN MUSIC Paul Collaer A HISTORY OF MODERN MUSIC TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY Sally Abeles...CONCLUSION 389 APPENDIX: MODERN MUSIC AND LYRIC THEATER 401...
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Problems of Modern Music: The Princeton Seminar in Advanced Musical Studies » Read Now
by Paul Henry Lang. 126 pgs.

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...Problems of Modern Music PROBLEMS of MODERN MUSIC The Princeton Seminar in Advanced Musical Studies...by the gap between what they learn and what they hear in modern...
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Tonality in Modern Music » Read Now
by Rudolph Reti. 192 pgs.

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Modern Music: Composers and Music of Our Time » Read Now
by Max Graf, Beatrice R Maier. 322 pgs.

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...Modern Music TO ADDIE ABBOT For Good Songs and Good Words . Modern Music COMPOSERS AND MUSIC OF OUR TIME...PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Modern Music "I am one of...
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From Song to Symphony: A Manual of Music Appreciation (includes "Orchestral Music (the Modern Period) A Modern Classic") » Read Now
by Daniel Gregory Mason. 243 pgs.

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...VIII. Orchestral Music The Modern Period 209 CHAPTER I...German Song. HADOW Studies in modern Music. HAMILTON Music Appreciation...in folksongs and in nearly all modern...
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The Problems of Modern Music » Read Now
by Adolf Weissmann, M. M. Bozman. 246 pgs.

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...Doc., Oxon. THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN MUSIC Photo Histed Sir Edward Elgar THE PROBLEMS OF MODERN MUSIC BY ADOLF WEISSMANN Translated...Professor Weissmanns study of modern...
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Twentieth Century Music: How it Developed, How to Listen to It » Read Now
by Marion Bauer, Ethel Peyser. 354 pgs.

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...to Minna Lederman, editor of Modern Music ; to Carl Engel, editor of...What can I do to grow to like modern music? I dont understand it. I have...articles of mine which...
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National Music and Other Essays (includes information on modern composers like Gustav Holst) » Read Now
by Ralph Vaughan Williams. 320 pgs.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams held strong views on many musical subjects. He never hesitated to express his views in plain, vigorous prose, and he became well-known for his essays, which combine typical common sense with a true composer's sensitivity. This collection contains all his writings that he...
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Ralph Vaughan Williams held strong views on many musical subjects. He never hesitated to express his views in plain, vigorous prose, and he became well-known for his essays, which combine typical common sense with a true composer's sensitivity. This collection contains all his writings that he thought worth preserving in book form. Topics include nationalism in music, the evolution of folk-song, and the origins of music, as well individual composers like Beethoven, Gustav Holst, Bach, Sibelius, Arnold Bax, and Elgar. Also included are more general reflections on the making of music, its purpose and effects, and the social foundations of music.
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Music after Modernism » Read Now
by Samuel Lipman. 231 pgs.

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...Music After Modernism MUSIC AFTER MODERNISM SAMUEL LIPMAN...Publication Data Lipman, Samuel. Music after modernism. Includes index. 1. Music History...Henry Pleasants in...
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Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s » Read Now
by Carol J. Oja. 493 pgs.

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New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism...
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New York City witnessed a dazzling burst of creativity in the 1920s. In this pathbreaking study, Carol J. Oja explores this artistic renaissance from the perspective of composers of classical and modern music, who along with writers, painters, and jazz musicians, were at the heart of early modernism in America. She also illustrates how the aesthetic attitudes and institutional structures from the 1920s left a deep imprint on the arts over the 20th century. Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, Edgar Varèse, Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, Marion Bauer, George Antheil-these were the leaders of a talented new generation of American composers whose efforts made New York City the center of new music in the country. They founded composer societies--such as the International Composers' Guild, the League of Composers, the Pan American Association, and the Copland-Sessions Concerts--to promote the performance of their music, and they nimbly negotiated cultural boundaries, aiming for recognition in Western Europe as much as at home. They showed exceptional skill at marketing their work. Drawing on extensive archival material--including interviews, correspondence, popular periodicals, and little-known music manuscripts--Oja provides a new perspective on the period and a compelling collective portrait of the figures, puncturing many longstanding myths. American composers active in New York during the 1920s are explored in relation to the "Machine Age" and American Dada; the impact of spirituality on American dissonance; the crucial, behind-the-scenes role of women as patrons and promoters of modernist music; cross-currents between jazz and concert music; the critical reception of modernist music (especially in the writings of Carl Van Vechten and Paul Rosenfeld); and the international impulse behind neoclassicism. The book also examines the persistent biases of the time, particularly anti-Semitisim, gender stereotyping, and longstanding racial attitudes.
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