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Cook, Nicholas
Pople, Anthony -
The Cambridge history of twentieth-century music
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Book
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Cambridge; New York, N.Y.
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2004
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Cambridge University Press
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xviii, 818 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
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English
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521662567
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Music--20th century--History and criticism.
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ML 197 .C34 C66 2004
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Cook, Nicholas, and Anthony Pople. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. The Cambridge History of Music. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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A multi-faceted history of 20th-century music.
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Includes chapters by various authors about different aspects of 20th-century music. Covers western art music, popular music, jazz, and non-western music.
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Divided in 20 chapters by topic, organized roughly chronologically. Each chapter is a history of a different aspect of 20th-century music, and each includes a bibliography. The book also includes two appendices: 1- Personalia (a biographical dictionary of composers and musicians) 2- Timeline of premieres and recordings. Includes a general index.
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Multitude of authors gives a broad overall perspective on 20th-century music.
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Holloway, Robin. Journal of the Royal Musical Association 130, no. 2 (2005): 327.
Wiesenfeldt, Christiane. Die Tonkunst Online: Das monatliche Online-Magazin für klassische Musik 3 (1 September 2005). -
BYU Mus Ref
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2961