Name: The Rest is Noise
Rating: 5 (25 reviews)
Author: Alex Ross
ISBN: 9780007380862

Alex Ross’s sweeping history of twentieth-century classical music, winner of the Guardian First Book Award, is a gripping account of a musical revolution.The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands, each influenced by its own composers, performers and musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour, Alex Ross, music critic for the ‘New Yorker’, explores the people and places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig, Brahms to Björk, pre-First World War Vienna to ‘Nixon in China’.Above all, this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art, politics and cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom and a source of immense social change.

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The Rest is Noise

The Rest Is Noise Series: Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington

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The Rest Is Noise Series: The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin’s Russia

The Rest Is Noise Series: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle

The Rest Is Noise Series: Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music, 1945–1949

The Rest Is Noise Series: Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties

The Rest Is Noise Series: “Grimes! Grimes!”: The Passion of Benjamin Britten

The Rest Is Noise Series: City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties