9780520245877

The Ellington Century

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780520245877

Hardcover|9780520245877


Overview

Breaking down walls between genres that are usually discussed separately--classical, jazz, and popular--this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing Duke Ellington (1899-1974) at the center of the story, David Schiff explores music written during the composer's lifetime in terms of broad ideas such as rhythm, melody, and harmony. He shows how composers and performers across genres shared the common pursuit of representing the rapidly changing conditions of modern life. The Ellington Century demonstrates how Duke Ellington's music is as vital to musical modernism as anything by Stravinsky, more influential than anything by Schoenberg, and has had a lasting impact on jazz and pop that reaches from Gershwin to contemporary R&B.

ISBN-13

9780520245877

ISBN-10

0520245873

Weight

1.30 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 1.20 x 9.00 In

List Price

$36.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

336 pages

Publisher

University of California Press

Published On

2012-02-21



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