Livre - New ears for new music

783 FLO

Description

Livre

Floros Constantin

Chalmers Kenneth

Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (232 p.)

Dimensions : 22 cm

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century's intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist and author Constantin Floros provides a survey of the different styles and tendencies in new music, presenting the most important composers from Schoenberg to Rihm in a series of fluent and readable essays that will appeal to connoisseurs and non-specialists alike. For Floros, music and biography are inseperable, and here he puts music in the context of the social and psychological background of its time.

Translation of the author's Neue Ohren fLur Neue Musik. Includes bibliographical references and index.