20Th Century Classical Music
£7.99
Written by The Observer’s classical music critic Fiona Maddocks, ’20th Century Classical Music’ will take you on an acoustic journey through history with a curated playlist on each page. At the turn of the century, Schoenberg pioneered classical music designed to challenge rather than soothe. Next came Stravinsky’s sensational Rite of Spring, written on the eve of WWI that changed the course of all classical music that followed. From the influence of the jazz age and the sounds of cities, the nationalism of folk revival, Russian revolutions from the Bolsheviks to Stalin, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, you’ll learn how composers painted with a full orchestral palette to capture the sentiments of their time.
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How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century?
What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s?
Which classical composers borrowed from jazz?
How did composers respond to politics and war?
DISCOVER the stories behind Mahler’s, Symphony No. 5 (1901-2), Ullman’s Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944), Bernstein’s West Side Story (1957), as well as learn about minimalism, jazz, swing, opera . . .
AND UNDERSTAND TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC.
Discover the answers and more inside Fiona Maddocks’ Twentieth Century Classical Music, the thrilling and accessible account that explains what happened throughout the 20th century, who the key composers were and what influenced them to write what they did?
| Weight | 0.126 kg |
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| Dimensions | 17.8 × 11.9 × 0.8 cm |
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