The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
ISBN-10
1841154768
ISBN-13
9781841154763
Series
The Rest Is Noise
Category
Music
Pages
695
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
HarperCollins UK
Author
Alex Ross

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Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker, takes us on a whirlwind tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classic music.

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