Modern TimesRobert P Morgan This volume covers the development of modern music from World War I to the present. Specific musical responses can be identified from the prevailing social, economic and political circumstances. Since World War II musical languages have tended to converge, with developments in technology and communications. Robert P. Morgan is the author of Twentieth Century Music, and co-editor of Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives. |
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... wrote absurdist piano pieces with fantastic titles like Embryons desséchés and Obstacles vénimeux and who even in his earliest works of the late 1880s had shown an original harmonic imagination , with a fondness for non - functional ...
... wrote absurdist piano pieces with fantastic titles like Embryons desséchés and Obstacles vénimeux and who even in his earliest works of the late 1880s had shown an original harmonic imagination , with a fondness for non - functional ...
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... wrote a scenario , freely based on creation legends in African folklore , that gave Milhaud ' the opportunity I had been waiting for to use those elements of jazz to which I had devoted so much study . I adopted the same orchestra as ...
... wrote a scenario , freely based on creation legends in African folklore , that gave Milhaud ' the opportunity I had been waiting for to use those elements of jazz to which I had devoted so much study . I adopted the same orchestra as ...
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... wrote in a Romantic style , at times reminiscent of nineteenth - century salon music , as his internationally celebrated song Estrellita bears witness . Within his nationalist idiom he often used techniques associated with impressionism ...
... wrote in a Romantic style , at times reminiscent of nineteenth - century salon music , as his internationally celebrated song Estrellita bears witness . Within his nationalist idiom he often used techniques associated with impressionism ...
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Paris 191845 | 33 |
Vienna after the Empire | 60 |
Germany 191845 | 83 |
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