Music from tritones to metronomes January 8, 2008
When you think you have reached the end of your adventures in musical explorations, then you should pick up this book. It is written in a captivating and intriguing style which mixes history, social and psychological considerations to the life and major works of the main XXth century composers. The author (god bless him) excites curiosity and renews enthusiasm for the explosive variety of 'classical' musical invention and thinking from Strauss to Ligety and up to the current postmodern noise, always embedding it in their time and offering a variety of different perspectives to their work. The resulting picture is broad, inclusive and often surprising, as for example in the section on Hitler's fixation with Wagner. The availability of an online companion with additional information and resources is useful to reduce the craving evoked by reading on most of the music described here (just google its title). I have already finished it once, fantasised on the written commentaries on various masterpieces, validated the relevance of the music through selective listening, and now prepare myself to further use the book as a a reference tool for future discoveries.
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