Item Detail
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Morton, Brian
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The Blackwell guide to recorded contemporary music
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Book
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The Blackwell guides
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Oxford; Cambridge, Mass.
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1996
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Blackwell
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xix, 361 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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0631201386 (pbk.); 0631188819
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Music--20th century--History and criticism.
Music--20th century--History and criticism. -
Contemporary Music; Sound Recordings; Twentieth Century
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ML 111.5 .M67 1996
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Morton, Brian. The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Contemporary Music. The Blackwell Guides. Oxford:Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
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A guide for performers, theorists, composers or scholars looking for recordings of contemporary music. Acts as a record of and an aid to the enjoyment of contemporary music.
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Seventy-four pieces by seventy-four different composers from the years 1940-1990 are included. Surveys composers from Europe, Russia and the United States. The book acts like a structured course in the development of musical styles from 1940-1990. Pieces were selected to demonstrate the stylistic change or generic survival of styles. The context in which the piece was written is given with each entry. Brief biographical information is given for each entry. Does not comment on the quality of the recording or of the performances in the recordings. Each entry also gives when it was first performed, one selected recording, the year it was recorded, and its duration. The beginning of each chapter gives a very brief timeline of pertinent historical and musical events.
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Organized into six sections by ten year decades, 1940s to 1990s. Composers are listed within the six sections chronologically by the date their piece was first performed. An index is included.
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Very effective for beginning personal study of the major trends and developments in music from 1940-1990.
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Only contains seventy-four pieces.
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BYU Mus Ref
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1204