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Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation.(Book Review)
Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation. By Arnold Whittall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [xi, 238 p. ISBN 0521816424. $70.] Index, bibliography, music examples.
In this new book, Arnold Whittall offers critical inquiry into compositional trends in mainstream European and American art music composed, primarily, over the course of the 1900s. The book derives from a series of lectures Whittall delivered in London in late 2000-early 2001 (p. vii), and is addressed to a scholarly audience. Although Whittall's approach reflects a musicological bent, he carefully avoids exclusionary forays into either overly specialized philosophical ...
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