Austin William W Includes Bela Bartok (1 results)

1966, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 708pp. Black cloth with gilt and red decorations to the spine. Top edge stained red, musical notation, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is edgeworn and creased, has small chips and closed tears and there is a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. "One of the principal aims of this vast panorama of musical composition in the twentieth century is to arouse in the reader a thirst for contemporary music and to share with him the author's knowledge of and enthusiasm for the many masterworks in different styles that our century has already produced". Time Period 1900-1966. Includes Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg & Igor Stravinsky. (Music, Contemporary Music, Jazz Music, Modernism, Music Appreciation).…