20th Century Classical Music

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How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century?

What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s?

Which classical composers borrowed from jazz?

How did composers respond to politics and war?


DISCOVER the stories behind Mahler's, Symphony No. 5 (1901-2), Ullman's Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944), Bernstein's West Side Story (1957), as well as learn about minimalism, jazz, swing, opera . . .

AND UNDERSTAND TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC.

Discover the answers and more inside Fiona Maddocks' Twentieth Century Classical Music, the thrilling and accessible account that explains what happened throughout the 20th century, who the key composers were and what influenced them to write what they did?

20th Century Classical Music features in the following genres: Art music, orchestral and formal music, History of music, Composers and songwriters, Theory of music and musicology

20th Century Classical Music is available in Hardback

20th Century Classical Music was written by Fiona Maddocks and published by Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd

20th Century Classical Music has 56 pages

Yes it is part of The Ladybird Expert Series series