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Books : The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
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The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by: Alex Ross List Price: £25.00 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £9.99 You Save: £15.01 (60%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9781841154756 ISBN: 184115475X Label: Fourth Estate Ltd Manufacturer: Fourth Estate Ltd Number Of Pages: 624 Publication Date: March 03, 2008 Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd Studio: Fourth Estate Ltd Sales Rank: 263 Related Items:
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 Rating: - A great read, recommended to anyone with even a passing interest in musicThis is a huge subject, and Alex Ross does a great job of covering it. Not everyone will be happy if their pet composer or movement has been tackled only briefly (if at all), but it would be impossible to fit the entire century into a single volume. As a result of reading this I have been moved to listen to Schoenberg and Strauss (esp. the Metamorphosen) for the first time; they are challenging works but rewarding and it has been great to have my musical horizons expanded by reading this book. For me, the book was worth buying for the chapter on Sibelius alone; the passage describing the walk around Ainola and linking it to Sibelius' music is just superb - it sent me straight back to my CD collection to dig out and listen to the symphonies ... Read More: Rating: - Musical and historic, magicv A communal review for the Cote d'Azure Men's book group of The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross Written for the book group by Sidney Freedman and Barry Hibbitt Music, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is the art of combining sound, voices and instruments to achieve beauty, an expression of emotion. Shakespeare's said it more succinctly in Twelfth Night: "if music be the food ... Read More: Rating: - unlikely to help you with that cd storage problem...Given that whole books could be written about virtually every single composer Alex Ross mentions in this mammoth survey, you'd be forgiven for thinking that 'The Rest is Noise' would be heavy on filler and light on critical insight. Whilst it's fair to say that as the musical world diversifies post-1950, Ross spends less and less time looking at the work of individual composers - this should take nothing away from an astounding work of scholarship. Like any critic, Ross clearly has his own tastes and prejudices - composition to him is at its best when it addresses a popular audience. It's therefore unsurprising that he devotes more pages to composers such as Mahler, Strauss, Stravinksy, Sibelius and Britten over the 20th century's kookier ... Read More: Rating:  - BARELY LISTENINGMade possible by the exacting editors at The New Yorker, where most of it appeared first, this once-over-very-lightly survey of 20th century Western music begins with the first stirrings of modernity in Bayreuth and Paris circa 1880 and takes us up to now, when new classical work is largely consigned to movie soundtracks. The real story since 1950 is the discovery of so much forgotten classical past, and the careful efforts to recreate its original sound in recordings. We experience classical music today through the composers brought back to roaring life by musicologists and audio engineers, not the dry postwar modernisms shunned by the public. At home, I now have more beautiful music ready to play than any pre-war musician would have heard ... Read More: Rating: - An exciting tour of a musical century still ill-understoodFor anyone at all interested in music from the twilight of Romanticism until the present this is a must read. Ross's compendious knowledge and mastery of his material makes this book both compulsive and a pleasure. Choosing to anchor the century in a performance of Strauss's Salome in Graz in 1906, the author introduces not only the key composers of the time - Strauss, Mahler and Schoenberg - but hovering the distance, the young Adolf Hitler. (Whether Hitler really did attend is not known - but Ross's point may be that in some sense he is there in spirit - or the new Germany is gestating in the womb of the old.) On the evolution of the Second Viennese School and early Stravinsky Ross is dependable and unfailingly insightful. I ... Read More: |
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