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Music Since 1900. 6th ed. By Laura Kuhn; Nicolas Slonimsky, editor emeritus. New York: Schirmer Reference, 2001. [xvii, 1174 p. ISBN 0-02-864787-4. $175.] Index.
While Nicolas Slonimsky was preparing the first edition of Music Since 1900 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1937), Henry Cowell advised him that, although the idea for the book was "perfectly stupendous," the title was "dry" and would "appeal only to highbrow librarians" (Nicolas Slonimsky, Perfect Pitch: A Life Story [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988], 154). Despite Cowell's remarks, Slonimsky did not alter the book's name, and, though the title perhaps lacks the clever turn of phrase associated with ...