Contemporary Composers

by St. James Press

Book Overview

Provides information on more than 600 living composers including Stockhausen, Cage, Berio and Carter. Entries consist of a short biography; a complete list of works; dates of first performance and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558620850
• ISBN13: 9781558620858
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 1019 Pages
• Weight: 5.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Best single source for contemporary composers

This is an encyclopedia of Contemporary Composers which politically correctly covers a lot of unbias international composers. (For instances, composers from Taiwan.) It also includes young talented composers. Every composers has good (1) biographical information (2) list of compositions and (3) an article about the composer. If this is only one book that I can get in this subject, I will choose this book, but not this first edition. The second edition was published by a different publisher. If you want to buy this book, you should go for the second edition.