This volume covers the development of modern music from World War I to the present. Specific musical responses can be identified from the prevailing social, economic and political circumstances. Since World War II musical languages have tended to converge, with developments in technology and communications. Robert P. Morgan is the author of Twentieth Century Music, and co-editor of Alban Berg: Historical and Analytical Perspectives.
Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, this bestselling history is now revised and updated and includes a new final chapter.
Traces the development of mathematics from its beginnings in Babylonia and ancient Egypt to the work of Riemann and Godel in modern times
In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have ...
Stylish reissue of the Orange Prize Winning Novel.
When I Lived in Modern Times is "an unsentimental coming-of-age story of both a country and a young immigrant . . . that provides an unforgettable glimpse of a time and place rarely observed" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The renaissance of Shiite thought in modern times has resulted , inter alia , in renewed scholarly efforts in the Islamic world and in the West to study the history of Shiism from early Islam , through the " classical ” age , up to the ...
This is the definitive guide to sparkling wine today, complete with profiles of exemplary producers, bottle recommendations, colorful infographics, and illustrated guides.
historical depth and offer new insights to extant, albeit scant, revisionist works that focus on specific geographic areas and time frames. Mention should be made of Richard T. Antoun (1989) on Muslim preachers in Jordan; Malika Zeghal ...
The book presents an overview of twentieth century photography in all its facets, from pure documentary to autonomous art.
It is the argument within this collection of essays that a major period in the development of teaching, its professionalism and work processes, might be coming to an end in England. It was a period in which a modern system of education ...