The New Music: The Sense Behind the SoundThis book is based on the viable premise that "the story of twentieth-century music is in great part the story of how different composers coped with the annihilation of tonality." |
Contents
STRAVINSKY AND THE FRANCO | 81 |
VARÈSE AND OTHER | 101 |
EPILOGUE | 185 |
Copyright | |
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