How to Listen to Modern Music

Author: Duncan, Mike

Publisher: Sound & Vision Publishing, Ltd.

Format:Paperback

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Overview:

On the eve of the 21st Century, most people, including the average music lover, consider Modern Music - the serious music of the entire 20th Century - an "abomination" to the ears. Mention the names Schoenberg, Messaien or Stockhausen and you'll get either a "Yukk!" or "Who?" And who else is better qualified to take readers by the hand and lead them to an understanding of the music of our century than that eminent though rural teacher, Professor Anton E. Darling, B.S. of Chezlee, Ontario who reflects the solar glow of his well lubricated mentor, Maestro Cofli Albani, L.C.B.O.? You'll remember him from his last book How To Stay Awake: During Anybody's Second Movement. Professor Darling expounds the truth about what happened to music around 1900 that created the shock waves that we're still reeling from today, almost one hundred years later. There are scandalous revelations about such giants as Debussy and near libelous queries raised about mega-rich borrowers like Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber. No one has dared to remove the lid of this final musical taboo of Modern Music and tell the public what is going on. Yet Darling does just that with his inimitable humor and a plethora of anecdotes.

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