Remaking the Past: Tradition and Influence in Twentieth-Century Music by Joseph N. Straus

Remaking the Past: Tradition and Influence in Twentieth-Century Music

Joseph N. Straus

207 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

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Joseph Straus details the revisionary strategies of twentieth century composers--how they transformed the music of the tonal tradition in creating their radically new sonorities and structures. He defines a mainstream of musical modernism, a mains...

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