Book of Donmon Teith

Concert Music of the Twentieth Century is about "concert music"--music for contemplation rather than for atmosphere. The repertoire discussed in these pages was

Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Weste

American Music in the Twentieth Century surveys the art music written in the United States during the last 100 years from the groundbreaking experiments of Char

(Amadeus). Nick Strimple's all-encompassing survey ranges from 19th-century masters, such as Elgar, to contemporary composers, such as Tan Dun and Paul McCartne

A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century This book offers a