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Ricostruendo momenti cruciali e opere-simbolo, "Il resto è rumore" conduce il lettore nel labirinto della musica del Ventesimo secolo, e allo stesso tempo rilegge la Storia attraverso il succedersi delle avanguardie musicali, dalla Vienna di inizio Novecento con Mahler e Strauss all'arte bolscevica di Sostakovic, dalla musica atonale e dodecafonica nella Berlino anni Venti fino a Messiaen e Ligeti. L'autore non si sofferma solo sulle figure dei musicisti, ma anche sui dittatori, i mecenati miliardari e i dirigenti che tentarono di controllare la musica che veniva composta; gli intellettuali che si sforzarono di porsi come giudici in fatto di stile; gli scrittori, pittori, ballerini e registi che accompagnarono i compositori sui sentieri solitari della ricerca; il pubblico che osannò, vituperò o ignorò quanto i compositori proponevano; le tecnologie che cambiarono il modo di realizzare e ascoltare musica; e le rivoluzioni, le guerre calde e fredde, i flussi migratori e le profonde trasformazioni sociali che rimodellarono il contesto in cui si svolgeva l'attività musicale.
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- Pagine: 892
- Data di uscita: 08-06-2011
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This book took me way too long to read, which is a little strange because I found it very interesting and quite inspiring. I'm tempted to give it five stars, but I'm too much of a dilettante when it comes to cough, serious music to not necessarily take everything that the author is saying at face va Leggi tutto
Who says history is boring? And who says classical music died with Wagner? Well I have actually always liked history but was largely unfamiliar with 20c classical music until I read Ross' excellent The Rest is Noise. Alex Ross does an amazing job of writing the history of the 20c in classical music
This isn't something I say lightly, but pretty much everyone should consider reading Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise .* Why? Because (a) it makes for a riveting work of political and cultural history, and (b) it provides a layman's entry point into that most venerable of Western art forms—classical musi Leggi tutto
Alex Ross is one of my must-read New Yorker writers. Whenever a new piece of his comes out I know I'm going to be smarter than I was before. To me, he is the music critic. The Rest Is Noise is often referred to as the book on 20th century classical music. And I can only further perpetrate that senti Leggi tutto
The Rest Is Noise takes us on a journey through the twentieth century in sound — specifically, the esoteric sounds of the era’s (mostly avant-garde ) classical composers. And, sure, if you’re yet to have been initiated into this bizarre world of sonic discord, you might not imagine that its screechy, Leggi tutto
This book is made so much more enjoyable because of the Internet--one of the few books you can say that about--because of the availability of samples of the music on the book's web site. I enjoyed the first chapters best because the author allowed me to imagine what a momentous event it must have be Leggi tutto
alex ross is one of the few remaining music critics for a major american periodical (there used to be many more, but it's a dwindling profession/art), in his case, the new yorker . he attends a concert more than once if possible, with the score and without, in order to both understand the music and f Leggi tutto
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