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Published by Picador, 2008
ISBN 10: 0312427719ISBN 13: 9780312427719
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393ISBN 13: 9780374249397
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Published by Harper Collins, 2009
ISBN 10: 1841154768ISBN 13: 9781841154763
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Published by Fourth Estate, 2008
ISBN 10: 184115475XISBN 13: 9781841154756
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Published by Harper Perennial, 2009
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Good. Very good condition paperback with minimal wear. Content is clean with slight toning.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0739497774ISBN 13: 9780739497777
Seller: ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.
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Published by Blackstone Audio Inc., 2007
ISBN 10: 1433207931ISBN 13: 9781433207938
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Published by FourthEstate / HarperCollins 2008, 2008
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Super octavo, hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Fourth Estate, 2008
ISBN 10: 184115475XISBN 13: 9781841154756
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Book and jacket in near fine condition with no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans. Heavy book so extra postage will be payable to overseas destinations.
Published by Fourth Estate, London,, 2008
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Reprint. Octavo hardcover; black boards with silver gilt spine titling and black endpapers; 624pp., monochrome plates. Densely spotted upper text block edge and scattered spotting on other edges with toning. Black dustwrapper slightly worn at edges and corners. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music. The idea is not simply to conduct a survey of 20th-century classical composition but to come up with a history of that century as refracted through its music. We start with Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, "the titans of Austro-German music" in Graz, on May 16, 1906. Strauss is there to conduct a performance of his opera Salome. It turns into an extraordinary night - not because of the shrieks, discords and howls of the music but because, to Mahler's astonishment, the audience loves it. This may have been "just one event in a busy season, but, like a flash of lightning, it illuminated a musical world on the verge of traumatic change. Past and future were colliding; centuries were passing in the night." Vividly actualized, extensively and astutely analyzed, the episode also serves as a model for the book as a whole. Time and again Ross finds an event that expresses a larger movement - a person or a scene in which tendencies and meaning converge. In Paris, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie stand for a "stripped-down, folk-based, jazz-happy" avant-garde, while in Vienna Arnold Schoenberg and his 12-tone progeny, Anton Webern and Alban Berg, illuminate "the terrible depths with their holy torches." From Stravinsky to Sibelius to Schoenberg (who "learned instrumental forms by subscribing to an encyclopedia, and waited for the S volume to arrive before composing a sonata"), the emerging heavyweights of the new music are sketched with a brevity and confidence that are the products, surely, of deep immersion and study. Steeped though Ross is in Theodor Adorno and Thomas Mann, his own style is mercifully free of the "implacable imperative of density" commended by the critic-devil in Mann's Doctor Faustus (a novel that provides a framing parable for the book's early sections). As Ross examines the compromised fate of composers under Stalin and Hitler, the book . rises to embrace its darker purpose. Inevitably Dmitri Shostakovich is the emblematically contorted figure, moving from derisory laughter at the very idea of having to explain "the socioeconomic dimensions of the music of Chopin and Liszt" to an uncomfortable accommodation with the state that both facilitates and threatens his work. In post-Wagnerian Germany, meanwhile, could something ominous be heard looming in all those "humongous Teutonic symphonies"? Conceding from the outset that "no composer more painfully exhibited the moral collapse of German art than Richard Strauss," Ross probes the composer's complex, often contradictory relation to the Nazi regime with considerable dexterity. This is where the debate at the conceptual heart of Ross's undertaking is thrown into sharpest focus: is the history of music self-contained or can a larger, extramusical history be distilled from it? Actually, as Ross makes clear, the alternatives are mutually implicated and imbricated: "precisely because of its inarticulate nature," music is "all too easily imprinted with ideologies and deployed to political ends " .in the postwar years, Ross's catchment area has to be extended still further. Inevitably, as we draw closer to the present, the quantity and range of material make it difficult for the book to sustain the concentration achieved mid-century. The fragmentation of the musical center means that the story becomes dispersed, and we are urged, irresistibly, toward the cultural edges. With its obligation to touch on everyone - Terry Riley, Alfred Schnittke, Thomas Ades - the book begins to resemble a reference work in narrative guise. I don't see how it could have been done differently, but the centrifugal force generated by the obligation to be comprehensive also causes a distortion of emphasis. Perhaps the problem rests on the necessary if unsustainable distinction between improvisation and composition. John Coltrane is mentioned, but relatively speaking, his importance here seems to derive from the way Steve Reich saw him play a bunch of times. Keith Jarrett does not get a look in, even though his improvised solo piano concerts in some ways represent the culmination of virtuoso classical performance stretching back to Liszt. It would be unfair, though, to dwell on omissions when so much has been included. The Rest Is Noise is a great achievement. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand "more seeingly" in front of certain paintings. Ross enables us to listen more hearingly. - abridged from the NY Times review by Geoff Dyer.
Fourth Estate, London 2008. 8vo. XIV+624 pages. Illustrations in b/w. Orig. boards in dust wrappers. Light wear to cover and wrappers. Near fine- / Near fine- wrappers.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393ISBN 13: 9780374249397
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing signed by Ross on the title page. A well-kept copy in VG+ condition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 8vo. 624pp. Signed by Author.
Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2007
Seller: In 't Wasdom - antiquariaat Cornelissen & De Jong, Notter, Netherlands
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Condition: Very Good. Very good, hardcover with dust jacket, 624 pp., ill. (pictures [bl./white]), with notes, index Sent as parcel post.
Published by Fourth Estate, 2008
ISBN 10: 184115475XISBN 13: 9781841154756
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition/ first printing. Original black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Slight dent to head of lower board. Vertical crease to spine. In very good printed dust jacket. *** First book by The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, "a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth century classical music", including explorations of progressive pop artists such as the Velvet Underground and Brian Eno.
Published by Blackstone Audio Inc, 2007
ISBN 10: 143320794XISBN 13: 9781433207945
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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MP3 CD. Condition: Brand New. mp3 una edition. 7.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.