Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition

by Joseph N. Straus

Joseph Straus details the revisionary strategies of twentieth century composers--how they transformed the music of the tonal tradition in creating their radically new sonorities and structures. He defines a mainstream of musical modernism, a mainstream shaped by the aggressive reinterpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century models.

207 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990