Voices in the Wilderness: Six American Neo-Romantic Composers

by Walter Simmons

Book Overview

Despite the Modernist search for new and innovative aesthetics and rejection of traditional tonality, several twentieth century composers have found their own voice while steadfastly relying on the aesthetics and techniques of Romanticism and 19th century composition principles. Musicological and reference texts have regarded these composers as isolated exceptions to modern thoughts of composition-exceptions of little importance, treated simplistically...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810857286
• ISBN13: 9780810857285
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 8.4"