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An edition of The rest is noise (2007)

The rest is noise

listening to the twentieth century

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by

  • 6 Want to read

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century is a 2007 nonfiction book by the American music critic, Alex Ross, first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It received widespread critical praise in the U.S. and Europe, garnering a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Guardian First Book Award, a Premio Napoli and the 2011 Grand Prix des Muses. The Rest is Noise also had a spot on the New York Times list of the ten best books of 2007, and a finalist citation for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. The book was also shortlisted for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Language
English
Pages
624

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Subjects

Histoy and criticism, Music, History and criticism, Musik, Music, history and criticism, 20th century

Times

20th century

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Table of Contents

1900-1933. The golden age : Mahler, Strauss, and the fin-de-siècle ; Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality ; Dance of the earth : the rite, the folk, le jazz ; Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington ; Apparition in the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius ; City of nets : Berlin in the twenties
1933-1945. The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia ; Music for all : music in FDR's America ; Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany
1945-2000. Zero hour : the U.S. army in Germany, 1945-1949 ; Brave new world : the cold war and the avant-garde ; Grimes! Grimes! : the passion of Benjamin Britten ; Zion park : Messiaen, Ligeti, and the avant-garde of the sixties ; Beethoven was wrong : bebop, rock, and the minimalists ; Sunken cathedrals : music at century's end.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
780.9/04
Library of Congress
ML197 .R76 2007, ML197.R76 2007

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
624

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OL17849167M
ISBN 13
9780374249397
LCCN
2007004504
OCLC/WorldCat
82172875
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3562104
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Q121090344
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392563

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