Musical Events: A Chronicle, 1983 1986 Tapa dura - 1991

Hardback. Acceptable.

Grafton. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London : Grafton, 1990. Second Edition. Softcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [600]p ; 24cm. Subjects; Music � Philosophy and aesthetics. Music � 20th century � History and criticism.

London: Grafton, 1991. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket with wear to edges and corners, including a few small tears to upper edges. Light marks to covers and to upper page block. Internal pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Grafton Books, 1989. Hbk 573pp light shelfwear to dj with a small loss top front now in protective sleeve otherwise internally an excellent clean tight unmarked copy as new

London England: Grafton, 1990. Hardback. Musical Events. Slight shelf wear to edge of D/J. Tiny piece of D/J. missing from top back. In this book, the author continues his inspired survey of the musical life of our times. Beginning with an account of a new Bayreuth production of Wagner's Ring and ending with cheers at the close of a Tanglewood new-music week, Musical Events brings us a wide range of musical adventures. Ours is 'an age at once busily creative and eager.... to explore and enjoy the musica of all ages', Porter writes, and these pages supply abundant evidence. Here, the distinguished music critic for The New Yorker both welcomes the 'musical inventions' of contemporary composers such as Carter, Boulez, and Stockhausen, and reflects on the continuing influence of the great masterpieces. He also considers the many ways in which classic operatic works are being rediscovered, restaged, and reinterpreted, praising, for instance, a Peter Sellars production of Handel's… Leer más