The World of Twentieth-Century Music

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The twentieth century has been a period of great experiment and progress in the music world. New forms, new instruments, and new sounds have emerged and blended with the old to produce major works that belong with the significant creations of all time. Here, in one of the most comprehensive studies of modern music ever published, David Ewen authoritatively and critically explores that development from 1900 to the present day.
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The twentieth century has been a period of great experiment and progress in the music world. New forms, new instruments, and new sounds have emerged and blended with the old to produce major works that belong with the significant creations of all time. Here, in one of the most comprehensive studies of modern music ever published, David Ewen authoritatively and critically explores that development from 1900 to the present day.
An individual section on each composer gives a critical consensus, a brief biography, and a listing of his works in order of composition and illuminated with programmatic and analytical notes. The technique of arranging the composers in alphabetical order provides the reader with a quick means of reference and enables him to scan the development of musical art forms through the artists that are of interest to him. In addition, each man's career is explored from apprenticeship to maturity, thus placing him in full context to the times and to the composers working around him.
Rather than a new edition, The World of Twentieth-Century Music is intended as a replacement for The Complete Booh of Twentieth
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Century Music originally published in 1952. More than ninety percent of the material is new. Twenty-nine composers have been added, over 400 additional works are discussed, and critical evaluations have been considerably amplified. The result is a crisply-written, exceedingly knowledgeable work of encyclopedic scope and range that discusses and explains, as comprehensively as possible, the currents and crosscurrents in the music of our times.
About the Author
David Ewen, whom TIME magazine once described as "music's interpreter to the American people" is one of the most widely published and successful writers on music in the world. His more than fifty books cover every facet of music, serious and popular, and have been translated into seventeen languages. Mr. Ewen's previous works include The World of Great Composers, The Home Book of Musical Knowledge, and Panorama of American Popular Music. He is also the authorized and definitive biographer of George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Jerome Kern, among others.
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YALE MUSIC LIBRARY
PRENTICE-HALL Englewood Cliffs, N. J.
368 • Printed in U.S. of America
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