Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity
(Part of the Routledge Advances in Sociology Series)
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In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The 'break with tonality', Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the 'sacred' in music, are explored in this book for what they tell us about the condition of modernity...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0415811430
ISBN13:9780415811439
Release Date:September 2012
Publisher:Routledge
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.59 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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