The Complete Companion to 20th Century Music
Title | The Complete Companion to 20th Century Music PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Lebrecht |
Publisher | |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Music |
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The Companion to 20th-century Music
Title | The Companion to 20th-century Music PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Lebrecht |
Publisher | |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Music |
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A lively and readable guide to the music of our century. Distinguished music critic Norman Lebrecht discusses the major composers, conductors, virtuosos, and songwriters who have made the finest music of the last 90 years--from Puccini to Presley, Rachmaninoff to rap. Illustrations.
The Faber Companion to 20th-century Popular Music
Title | The Faber Companion to 20th-century Popular Music PDF eBook |
Author | Phil Hardy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1258 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
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The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music has established itself as the classic reference work in this area. From ABBA to ZZ Top, through Noel Coward, The Skatalites and The Stone Roses, this book covers the major players in the vast history of popular music in the twentieth century. With over 2,500 entries and covering bebop to western swing by way of psychedelic rock, Hardy's companion maps out a cultural history of the century that is both entertaining and informative.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Mervyn Cooke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2005-12-08 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521780094 |
This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.
Cassell Companion to 20th-century Music
Title | Cassell Companion to 20th-century Music PDF eBook |
Author | David Pickering |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780304349371 |
A guide to twentieth-century music that includes information about the different genres and styles, the most influential composers and performers, the musical terms that are used, and other related topics.
The Faber Companion to 20th-century Popular Music
Title | The Faber Companion to 20th-century Popular Music PDF eBook |
Author | Phil Hardy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1211 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Popular music |
ISBN | 9780571171484 |
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music
Title | The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Cook |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 848 |
Release | 2004-08-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521662567 |
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