Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde A Biocritical Sourcebook

Subjects:

• The Arts » Music (General)

Reviews:

• 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 September 2003
• [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 .

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Foreword
• Alphabetical Entries