American Music in the Twentieth Century
by Gann, Kyle
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.)
- ISBN 10
- 002864655X
- ISBN 13
- 9780028646558
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About This Item
New York/ London: Schirmer Books/ Prentice Hall International, 1997. Hardcover. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Black boards with gilt spine lettering; bw illustrated dj, mylar cover; xvi, 400 pp; bw illustrations and music. "American Music in the Twentieth Century surveys the art music written in the United States during the last 100 years from the groundbreaking experiments of Charles Ives to the present day. Writing for the general reader, Kyle Gann describes the characteristic sounds of the diverse movements that have sprung up in this eventful period, while at the same time he sketches the changing social and cultural contexts for American concert music, and provides concise biographies of key figures."-dj. Contents: Prelude : What is American music? -- Forefathers -- Ultramodernism-- the 1920s -- Populism-- the 1930s -- Experimentalism -- Atonality and European influence -- John Cage and the New York School revolution -- Post-Cage conceptualism -- Minimalism -- New tonality 1-- the new Romanticism -- Electronic music -- Interfaces with rock and jazz -- New tonality 2-- postminimalism -- Totalism and the 1990s.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
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- Title
- American Music in the Twentieth Century
- Author
- Gann, Kyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 002864655X
- ISBN 13
- 9780028646558
- Publisher
- Schirmer Books/ Prentice Hall International
- Place of Publication
- New York/ London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Music ; American Music History ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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