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Title: Soundings: Music in the Twentieth Century by Glenn Watkins ISBN: 0-02-873290-1 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 26 October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $77.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Revised Edition
Comment: The initial printing, with the described editing problems, was corrected almost a decade ago. Readers are encouraged to see the result for themselves. The book has been widely and successfully adopted as a text throughout the United States.
Rating: 3
Summary: Concise but confusing
Comment: Soundings is a good book with a great many examples and a great deal of information, but the format often leaves the reader in quite a quandry, as the author titles a chapter "Alan Berg Before Wozzeck," and the reader expects such. Then the author goes on to talk about Berg, but keeps referring back to Webern and Mahler and Schoenberg, and the reader at many points is left wondering exactly who this piece of music and that particular quote is by. Once again, much information in a format lacking in organization.
Rating: 3
Summary: Quite good before 1945, but really needs editing
Comment: Watkins seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the first half ot the twentieth century, and does a very good job of encapsulating stylistic trends. However, his examples sometimes do not support his conclusions, although they seem sound. Often, a few logical steps seem to be left out. Finally, this book is marred by shoddy editing. Figures do not match the text, there are factual errors, and the reader is constantly being refered to "pp. 000-000".
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Title: Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Norton Introduction to Music History) by Leon Plantinga ISBN: 0393951960 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1984 List Price(USD): $55.40 |
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Title: Music of the Twentieth Century: Style and Structure by Bryan R. Simms ISBN: 0028723929 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 12 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $55.95 |
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Title: Analytical Anthology of Music by Ralph Turek ISBN: 0070654565 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $68.55 |
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