Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde
Subtitle: A Biocritical Sourcebook
Publisher: Greenwood Press; Greenwood
Published: December 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780313296895
Subjects: 20th century music; Other types of music; Music; Biography / Autobiography; General; Music / General; History & Criticism - General; 20th century; Avant-garde (Music); Biography; Composers; History and criticism
First sentence: It is fitting to discover American composer George Antheil (b. Trenton, NJ, 1900; d. New York, NY 1959) in a volume devoted to the music of avant-garde composers since few figures better epitomize the various traits of this aesthetic and stylistic tendency.