Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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Page 68
... fact the composers of these minstrel shows had only the ghost of a notion of what the black music of the South was really about ; even Stephen Foster , the man who captured the fragile sentiments and susceptibilities of the North in his ...
... fact the composers of these minstrel shows had only the ghost of a notion of what the black music of the South was really about ; even Stephen Foster , the man who captured the fragile sentiments and susceptibilities of the North in his ...
Page 129
... fact Webern who created the totally new language , by eliminating conventional rhythmic impulses and pointing individual notes of a line across different instruments . By these means he achieved a unified shape and enormous clarity ( to ...
... fact Webern who created the totally new language , by eliminating conventional rhythmic impulses and pointing individual notes of a line across different instruments . By these means he achieved a unified shape and enormous clarity ( to ...
Page 146
... fact been anticipated , from a different and very much more complex standpoint , by the Greek composer , Iannis Xenakis . The development of integral serialism , for all its restrictive determinacy , was historically within the western ...
... fact been anticipated , from a different and very much more complex standpoint , by the Greek composer , Iannis Xenakis . The development of integral serialism , for all its restrictive determinacy , was historically within the western ...
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The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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