2000, ISBN: 9780304299010

Hardcover

Simon & Schuster, Kingsway, London 2000 Softcover, 23 x 15cms Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers and barcode. Book in VERY GOO… More...

Simon & Schuster, Kingsway, London 2000 Softcover, 23 x 15cms Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers and barcode. Book in VERY GOOD condition This is the revised edition of 1992 original. This Companion contains entries on dozens of important composers who have never appeared in an English reference work. It assesses the merits of jazz and rock and their role in musical evolution. It examines the political environment in which music was created and concludes that it acquitted itself best of all the Arts in its response to Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism. It attacks with equal vigour the elitism that encouraged some composers to ignore audiences and the commercialism that prompted others to write for the lowest common denominator. Boulez and Lloyd Webber are given a rough ride; Martinu and Bernstein are rehabilitated; Palestine and Karamanov are rediscovered. Includes more than a dozen photographic portraits of contemporary composers by Betty Freeman., Simon & Schuster, Kingsway, London, 2000, 2.5, Cassell, 1977. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ unevenly faded with some shelf wear. Lower margins of boards faded. Text bright and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 9½” x 6¼” (0.8 kg); 303pp; Index; Using Boulez’s career as a focal point, this book explores the entire generation of composers which followed Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern — from René Leibowitz, Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Europe to Milton Babbitt, John Cage and their colleagues in the United States. It details the professional friendships and rivalries, the struggles for recognition and power, the politics of success and failure, in an absorbing study of Boulez, the man and the artist. ISBN: 0304299014 || The book is in stock and ships from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, nearly in Bath, from a long-in-the-tooth bookseller - guaranteed by my sound reputation and the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#(139534)|| Condition:, Cassell, 1977, 2.75<

1977, ISBN: 9780304299010

Cassell, 1977. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ unevenly faded with some shelf wear. Lower margins of boards faded. Text bright and tight.. First edition (first pri… More...

Cassell, 1977. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ unevenly faded with some shelf wear. Lower margins of boards faded. Text bright and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 9½” x 6¼” (0.8 kg); 303pp; Index; Using Boulez’s career as a focal point, this book explores the entire generation of composers which followed Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern — from René Leibowitz, Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Europe to Milton Babbitt, John Cage and their colleagues in the United States. It details the professional friendships and rivalries, the struggles for recognition and power, the politics of success and failure, in an absorbing study of Boulez, the man and the artist. ISBN: 0304299014 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#139534|| Condition:, Cassell, 1977, 2.75<

1977, ISBN: 9780304299010

Cassell, 1977. Hardback. Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ unevenly faded with some shelf wear. Lower margins of boards faded. Text bright and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback … More...

Cassell, 1977. Hardback. Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ unevenly faded with some shelf wear. Lower margins of boards faded. Text bright and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 9½” x 6¼” (0.8 kg); 303pp; Index; Using Boulez’s career as a focal point, this book explores the entire generation of composers which followed Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern — from René Leibowitz, Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Europe to Milton Babbitt, John Cage and their colleagues in the United States. It details the professional friendships and rivalries, the struggles for recognition and power, the politics of success and failure, in an absorbing study of Boulez, the man and the artist. ISBN: 0304299014 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#139534|| Condition:, Cassell, 1977, 2.75<

1977, ISBN: 9780304299010

Cassell, 1977. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ unevenly faded with some shelf wear. Lower margins of boards faded. Text bright and tight.. First edition (first pri… More...

Cassell, 1977. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Good DJ. DJ unevenly faded with some shelf wear. Lower margins of boards faded. Text bright and tight.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 9½” x 6¼” (0.8 kg); 303pp; Index; Using Boulez’s career as a focal point, this book explores the entire generation of composers which followed Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern — from René Leibowitz, Olivier Messiaen and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Europe to Milton Babbitt, John Cage and their colleagues in the United States. It details the professional friendships and rivalries, the struggles for recognition and power, the politics of success and failure, in an absorbing study of Boulez, the man and the artist. ISBN: 0304299014 || The book is in stock and ships from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, nearly in Bath, from a long-in-the-tooth bookseller - guaranteed by my sound reputation and the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy of this book means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book#(139534)|| Condition:, Cassell, 1977, 2.75<