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Rupprecht, Philip Ernst,

British musical modernism : the Manchester Group and their contemporaries / Philip Rupprecht. - 496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm. - Music since 1900 . - Music since 1900. .

This panoramic study of musical modernism synthesizes cultural, biographical, and analytic perspectives to provide a group portrait of the leading figures in post-war British art music. Philip Rupprecht explores the music of the Manchester Group and other composers in works spanning sixties theatricality through to seventies pop, electronic and post-minimalist music.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9780521844482 (hbk.) : £84.99 No price

Subjects--Corporate Names:
New Music Manchester.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Music--History and criticism.--England--Manchester--20th century
Music.
Music.

Dewey Class. No.: 780.9'42733'09045