Strunk's Source Readings in Music History by Leo Treitler

Strunk's Source Readings in Music History by Leo Treitler

Twentieth-century music has been described as complex, vital, diverse, uncertain, experimental, self-conscious, innovative-the list is long and growing. Composers have been both credited with and accused of always searching for something new, writing works that are mechanistic but romantic, meaningful but unskilled, beautiful but ugly In The Twentieth Century, Robert P. Morgan helps us grasp the flavor of the era by presenting forty-five readings from the period, nearly all written by active participants in the musical developments of the time. Thus we tune in to the voices of some thirty composers-from Busoni to Babbitt, Ives to Xenakis, Satie to Stravinsky-and learn from performers Anderson and Landowska, philosopher-critics Adorno, Dahlhaus, and Meyer, and writers Cocteau, Barthes, and Eco.

Leo Treitler, Distinguished Professor of Music at the City University of New York, is the author of Music and the Historical Imagination, as well as other books and articles on music historiography and medieval music. Robert P. Morgan, historian, composer, and theorist, received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is currently on the music faculty at Yale University.

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ISBN 13	9780393967005
ISBN 10	039396700X
Title	Strunk's Source Readings in Music History
Author	Leo Treitler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	1998-01-14
Number of pages	264
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