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Twentieth-Century Music: a History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America

by Robert P. Morgan

Series:The Norton Introduction to Music History (1991)

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Morgan divides his text into three chronological sections. Beginning with such giants as Mahler, Richard Strauss and Debussy, he discusses national movements, as represented by Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams; philosophical movements as various as the Schoenberg/Berg/Webern alliance or "les six"; and the giants who were "sui generis", such as Bartok and Stravinsky. The "isms" such as serialism, minimalism, indeterminism, the new romanticism and pluralism, are clearly delineated and show more the electronic boom of the last decades is defined. show less

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Canonical title: Twentieth-Century Music: a History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America

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Languages: English, Spanish
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Published: 1991
Genres: Music, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS: 780.904
LCC: ML197 .M675

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