American Experimental Music 18901940
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 26, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780521424646
Subjects: 20th century music; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Music/Songbooks; History & Criticism - General; Music; USA; Reference; Music / General; Music / History & Criticism; Composition (Music); 19th century; History and criticism; United States
First sentence: Until the last decade of the nineteenth century, music written by American composers was almost invariably modelled on the theory and practice of European convention.