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Guides the reader or researcher, in language suitable for the layperson, through the history and musicianship of the avant-garde composers of the 20th century.
LARRY SITSKY is a noted Australian composer, pianist, musicologist, and educator. His list of works ranges from grand opera and symphony to keyboard miniatures, and his musicological investigations include many books on such subjects as Rubinstein, the Russian Avant-Garde, and reproducing piano rolls.
?[v]aluable as starting point for research....[S]itsky's volume
does a very good job of highlighting the astounding diversity of
this most exciting era....[t]he Reich volume opens with a short,
insightful, and well-written account of the composer's life. It
then proceeds through the various listings in exemplary fashion,
greatly facilitating the work of any serious student of Steve
Reich's music.?-Quarterly Journal of the Music Library
Association
?Sitsky presents a collection of short essays about composers
determined to be part of the 20th-century avant-garde, accompanied
by selected works lists and bibliographies for each
composer....useful to music students and general
readers....Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and
general readers.?-Choice
"Ýv¨aluable as starting point for research....ÝS¨itsky's volume
does a very good job of highlighting the astounding diversity of
this most exciting era....Ýt¨he Reich volume opens with a short,
insightful, and well-written account of the composer's life. It
then proceeds through the various listings in exemplary fashion,
greatly facilitating the work of any serious student of Steve
Reich's music."-Quarterly Journal of the Music Library
Association
"Sitsky presents a collection of short essays about composers
determined to be part of the 20th-century avant-garde, accompanied
by selected works lists and bibliographies for each
composer....useful to music students and general
readers....Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and
general readers."-Choice
"[v]aluable as starting point for research....[S]itsky's volume
does a very good job of highlighting the astounding diversity of
this most exciting era....[t]he Reich volume opens with a short,
insightful, and well-written account of the composer's life. It
then proceeds through the various listings in exemplary fashion,
greatly facilitating the work of any serious student of Steve
Reich's music."-Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association
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