Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays

by Roger Sessions

Book Overview

Over the past fifty years Roger Sessions has developed, in articles, lectures, and addresses, various themes that reflect the stages of his own musical and intellectual growth. These themes form the basis of the present collection of essays. Many of the essays deal with specific problems that musicians, especially composers, have faced during the past five decades: problems related to new musical styles and techniques, to the position of composers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691100748
• ISBN13: 9780691100746
• Release Date: March 1979
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 400 Pages