Table of Contents

Preface Foreword Alphabetical Entries

Promotional Information

Guides the reader or researcher, in language suitable for the layperson, through the history and musicianship of the avant-garde composers of the 20th century.

About the Author

LARRY SITSKY is a noted Australian composer, pianist, musicologist, and educator. His list of works ranges from grand opera and symphony to keyboard miniatures, and his musicological investigations include many books on such subjects as Rubinstein, the Russian Avant-Garde, and reproducing piano rolls.

Reviews

?[v]aluable as starting point for research....[S]itsky's volume does a very good job of highlighting the astounding diversity of this most exciting era....[t]he Reich volume opens with a short, insightful, and well-written account of the composer's life. It then proceeds through the various listings in exemplary fashion, greatly facilitating the work of any serious student of Steve Reich's music.?-Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

?Sitsky presents a collection of short essays about composers determined to be part of the 20th-century avant-garde, accompanied by selected works lists and bibliographies for each composer....useful to music students and general readers....Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and general readers.?-Choice

"Ýv¨aluable as starting point for research....ÝS¨itsky's volume does a very good job of highlighting the astounding diversity of this most exciting era....Ýt¨he Reich volume opens with a short, insightful, and well-written account of the composer's life. It then proceeds through the various listings in exemplary fashion, greatly facilitating the work of any serious student of Steve Reich's music."-Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association

"Sitsky presents a collection of short essays about composers determined to be part of the 20th-century avant-garde, accompanied by selected works lists and bibliographies for each composer....useful to music students and general readers....Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and general readers."-Choice

"[v]aluable as starting point for research....[S]itsky's volume does a very good job of highlighting the astounding diversity of this most exciting era....[t]he Reich volume opens with a short, insightful, and well-written account of the composer's life. It then proceeds through the various listings in exemplary fashion, greatly facilitating the work of any serious student of Steve Reich's music."-Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association