num_pages: 264
description: Joseph Straus details the revisionary strategies of twentieth century composers--how they transformed the music of the tonal tradition in creating their radically new sonorities and structures. He defines a mainstream of musical modernism, a mainstream shaped by the aggressive reinterpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century models.
language: English
title: Remaking the Past: Tradition and Influence in Twentieth-Century Music
titlecomplete: Remaking the Past: Tradition and Influence in Twentieth-Century Music
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Harvard University Press