Music Since the First World War
Publisher: Everyman Ltd
Published: August 25, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780460125673
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Second World War, 1939-1945; Contemporary popular music
First sentence: 'The transition from composition which still emphasized key (while always containing many dissonances) to one where there is no longer any key, any tonic, any consonances, happened gradually, in accordance not with any wish or will, but with a vision, an inspiration; it happened perhaps instinctively.'