Music Since the First World War

Reprint.  viii, 278pp.  Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed at spine tail.  Some mild white marks in upper corner of front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  

A history of the development of classical music from the end of the first world war to the 1970s; one which argues that the period was dominated by two trends - the gradual loss of commitment to tonality and the failure of twelve-note serialism to won more than limited acceptance. It also begins to cover the emergence of electronic sound sources and freer methods of notation and structural organisation.