The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 19221936
Subtitle: Shaping a Nation's Tastes (Music in the Twentieth Century)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780521661171
Subjects: 20th century music; Radio & television industry; Radio Broadcasting; History & Criticism - General; Social Aspects Of Music; Music/Songbooks; Radio - History & Criticism; Music; History and criticism; Berg, Alban; Music / General; Performances; Radio and music--Great Britain; Schoenberg, Arnold; Webern, Anton; British Broadcasting Corporati; Radio and music; General; 20th century; Avant garde (Music); Great Britain; History
First sentence: From the perspective of the 1990s, two such well-known and predominant institutions as the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Second Viennese School require no introduction: the BBC is so fundamental a part of British contemporary life and culture, and the compositions and idioms of Schoenberg and his colleagues so essential to the twentieth-century development of Western art music that the influence of both today is self-evident.