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Companion to Twentieth-Century Music (1992)

by Norman Lebrecht

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A guide to the most exciting century in musical history. It guides the bewildered music lover through a maze of conflicting ideologies and personalities, weeding out the historic from the ephemeral and explaining compositional techniques in comprehensible language.

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revised and republished in 2000 as The Complete Companion to 20th-Century Music

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An accessible guide to the music of this century covers ninety years and a great variety of styles and artists, from Puccini to Presley, from Rachmaninoff to rap. 10,000 first printing.

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