Product Description

KEY BENEFIT: This book provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to 20th-Century Music available from Impressionism to recent trends. It covers music from the early 1900s through such movements as Minimalism and the Neoromanticism of the 1990's, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in Twentieth-Century music. For individuals interested in music theory and harmony; and an analysis and history of 20th-century music.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57708 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

This is alright
What I like about this book is how it explains the subjects in detail and provides examples and problems to work out. What I don't like is how its ordered, its kind of confusing. This is an expensive book you'll use for maybe one or two semesters, consider getting it used.

Great Book!
I purchased this book for an "Adv. Theory" course in university. I like Kostka's approach to teaching 20th century music. For example, he will have you go back to the same example (exerpt) in the first chapter to answer several questions.
The summaries of each chapter are helpful: theres a Part A: short answer/ quick questions, Part B: analysis, which is great to work with your professor with, and a Part C: composition, which I havn't dealt much with.