Music in Transition - A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920

Zusatztext `An admirably full and balanced introduction'Music in Education Klappentext The decades from 1900 to 1920 saw important changes in the very language of music. Traditional tonal organization gave way to new forms of musical expression and many of the foundations of modern music were laid. Samson first explores tonal expansion in the music of such nineteenth-century composers as Liszt and Wagner and its reinterpretation in the music of Debussy! Busoni! Bartok! and Stravinsky. He then traces the atonal revolution! revealing the various paths taken by Schoenberg and his followers and describing their very different stylistic development. Zusammenfassung BL A clear and stimulating guide to the origins of modern musicIn the decades from 1900 to 1920, traditonal tonality gave way to new forms of musical expression and was reinterpreted. In tracing the atonal revolution, Jim Samson reveals the various paths taken by Schoenberg and his followers, describing their very different stylistic development.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Samson, Jim (Professor of Musicology Samson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.1994
• EAN: 9780460861502
• ISBN: 978-0-460-86150-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history