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Book Review
Mar. 13th, 2012 08:05 pmModern Music: A Concise History
by Paul Griffiths
I am using this book as a source for my Digital Humanities paper, and since it is short and I figured I could use a quick music history refresher, I decided to go ahead and read it. It was definitely worth the couple of hours it took.
Griffiths covers the gamut of 20th century music, starting in 1894 with Debussy's Prelude a L'Apres-midi d'un faun up though the early 1990s (the book was published in 1994). He is indeed concise and straightforward in a way that allows him to include a wide range of composers and compositional styles. Although fairly Euro-centric (and andro-centric for that matter), this book was a good overview of modern music and provided just the kind of big-picture review I was looking for.
by Paul Griffiths
I am using this book as a source for my Digital Humanities paper, and since it is short and I figured I could use a quick music history refresher, I decided to go ahead and read it. It was definitely worth the couple of hours it took.
Griffiths covers the gamut of 20th century music, starting in 1894 with Debussy's Prelude a L'Apres-midi d'un faun up though the early 1990s (the book was published in 1994). He is indeed concise and straightforward in a way that allows him to include a wide range of composers and compositional styles. Although fairly Euro-centric (and andro-centric for that matter), this book was a good overview of modern music and provided just the kind of big-picture review I was looking for.
