Twentieth-century music in the West: an introduction
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Main Authors: Perchard, Tom 1976- (Author), Graham, Stephen 1982- (Author), Rutherford-Johnson, Tim 1977- (Author), Rogers, Holly ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2022
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Abstract:"Introduction Steve Reich pitched up in San Francisco in September 1961. He was a young musician, one who had been taken by the early-century work of the Hungarian composer and folklorist Béla Bartók, and he had journeyed west from New York in the hope of studying with Leon Kirchner, a composer in the rough-lyric Bartók tradition who'd been teaching at Mills College. But Kirchner had just left for Harvard, so Reich ended up working at Mills under Luciano Berio. Over the course of the previous decade, Berio had become identified as a figurehead of the European post-war avant-garde: his ultramodern serialist work was quite a different proposition to Kirchner's own"--
Physical Description:XIV, 479 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Porträts 25,1 cm
ISBN:9781108481984
9781108741736