{"product_id":"american-pioneers-9780714847696","title":"American Pioneers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA survey of the American composers who invented new musical languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Smoothly executed. The chapter on Cage may well be the best introduction to his thought and work in English.\"—\u003cem\u003eGramophone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e '...Has a subtle but insistently inquiring approach to biography and details of artistic development. Alan Rich sets out the facts on early-20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century music with clarity as well as providing a succinct summary of the background of the rise of concert music in the cultured urban classes if the west coast in the 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century.\"—\u003cem\u003eMusical Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e On the \u003cem\u003e20th Century Composers\u003c\/em\u003e Series\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As a series, Phaidon's \u003cem\u003e20th Century Composers \u003c\/em\u003ehas brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiastically musical.\"—\u003cem\u003eThe Scotsman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\/Prelude\/Charles Ives\/Edgard Varese\/Henry Cowell\/John Cage\/New Sources, New  Sounds\/Epilogue\/Selective List of Works\/Further Reading\/Selective Discography\/Index","brand":"Phaidon Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526223733079,"sku":"9780714847696","price":15.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780714847696.jpg?v=1731863398","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-pioneers-9780714847696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}