• Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America

Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America

Author(s) Robert P Morgan
ISBN10 039395272X
ISBN13 9780393952728
Format Hardcover
Pages 576
Year Publish 1991 January

Synopsis

Morgan divides his text into three chronological sections. Beginning with such giants as Mahler, Richard Strauss and Debussy, he discusses national movements, as represented by Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams; philosophical movements as various as the Schoenberg/Berg/Webern alliance or 'les six'; and the giants who were 'sui generis', such as Bartok and Stravinsky. The 'isms' such as serialism, minimalism, indeterminism, the new romanticism and pluralism, are clearly delineated and the electronic boom of the last decades is defined.

About the Author:

Robert P. Morgan, historian, composer, and theorist, received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is currently on the music faculty at Yale University.