One Hundred Years of Music: After Beethoven and Wagner

by Gerald Abraham

Book Overview

One Hundred Years of Music provides a full account of the history of music from the death of Beethoven to the modern era. It covers a period of exceptional interest. The last hundred years coincide roughly with the rise and decline of Romanticism, include the various nationalist movements, and extend to the advent of "neo-classicism," the twelve-tone system, and still more modern techniques. Abraham devotes ample space to modernist and avant garde...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202361942
• ISBN13: 9780202361949
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"