Music since the First World War [Paperback]

This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century. In a concise and accessible narrative, Whittall examines the continued but declining commitment to tonality, twelve-note serialism, and the gradual emergence of new aesthetic attitudes and concepts of musical form.

[A] stimulating survey of more than 30 composers. --The Musical Times

An excellent, balanced survey of the most important developments of music this century that should appeal to student and informed amateur alike. --Composer