Score Reading

by Roger Fiske and Roger Parker

This anthology contains eighteen representative examples of the particular difficulties presented by twentieth-century scores, stimulating consideration of the relationship between what is seen (the score) and what is heard (the music). The emphasis in the period before 1945 is on major composers: Mahler, Debussy, Schoenberg, Ives, Stravinsky, Bartok, Varese, Webern, and Messiaen. For the period after the Second World War the authors have chosen examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193210304
• ISBN13: 9780193210301
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Music
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 12.5" x 9.3"