Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920

Samson, Jim

BL A clear and stimulating guide to the origins of modern music In the decades from 1900 to 1920, traditonal tonality gave way to new forms of musical expression and was reinterpreted. In tracing the atonal revolution, Jim Samson reveals the various paths taken by Schoenberg and his followers, describing their very different stylistic development.

EAN

9780460861502

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

28 April 1994

Pages

256