Concert Music of the Twentieth Century
Subtitle: Its Personalities, Institutions, and Techniques
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: September 3, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780130304667
Description: "Concert Music of the Twentieth Century is about 'concert music'--music for contemplation rather than for atmosphere. The repertoire discussed in these pages was written by composers with something important to say and with skills to do so. Many of the works discussed tie in with a long-standing, Western European tradition of art music, but an equal voice is given to culturally and ethnically diverse composers active during the past several decades. Radice provides data about the pieces, the composers who wrote them, and the contexts in which they originated."--Back cover.