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Title: Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music (2nd Edition) by Stefan Kostka ISBN: 0-13-924077-2 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 16 July, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $78.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you're a twenty-first century composer, get this book!
Comment: Was searching for the longest time for a good, in-depth reference book over twentieth century music, and I've found it in Mr. Kostka's publication. Thank God for Mr. Kostka!
Twentieth-century music books tend to be a little heavy on the beginning of the century and leave out all the recent developments like Minimalism, and electronic music. This book was published in 1998 and covers those sections beautifully.
Also, the way the material is organized is much more helpful than if it went chapter by chapter by composer or historically.
Other merits include the summaries at the end of each chapter, the numerous musical examples, exercises, and references to other books over twentieth century music.
One word of warning, however.
Although the book is excellently written, it is a book for advanced music theory students. If you don't have all your musical terminology down from previous study, you're going to get lost very quickly.
But what a breath of fresh air not to be talked down to anymore!
While reading, I kept thinking how Mr. Kostka uncoveres the mystical/mathematical qualities of this music; so well, in fact, that this book would make even Pythagoras proud.
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Title: Analytic Approaches to Twentieth-Century Music by Joel Lester ISBN: 0393957624 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $59.30 |
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Title: Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice by Vincent Persichetti ISBN: 0393095398 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1961 List Price(USD): $32.70 |
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Title: Anthology of Twentieth-Century Music (Norton Introduction to Music History) by Robert P. Morgan ISBN: 0393952843 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $50.45 |
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Title: Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg by Arnold Schoenberg ISBN: 0520052943 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1984 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (2nd Edition) by Joseph N. Straus ISBN: 0130143316 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 13 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $77.00 |
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