Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 12, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780198166832
First sentence: In 1989, Alexander Goehr described a fundamental feature of twentieth-century music with exemplary concision: a great deal of music written in the last seventy years or so cannot be regarded as a straight-forward continuation of Classical and Romantic music, either in the way it is conceived or in the way it is meant to be listened to.