Singing in the Wilderness
Subtitle: Music and Ecology in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252025297
Subjects: 20th century music; Music/Songbooks; Music Of The 20th Century; Social Aspects Of Music; Music; Nature in music; History & Criticism - General; Reference; Music / History & Criticism; General; 20th century; History and criticism
First sentence: RICHARD WAGNER'S Tristan und Isolde, we are often told, was the beginning of modern music.
Description: "Displaying the broad erudition and intellectual agility that have informed a lifetime of scholarship, Wilfrid Mellers offers a set of diverse reflections on how Western art music illuminates the shifting relationship between humankind and the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.