Published by Picador, 2008
ISBN 10: 0312427719 ISBN 13: 9780312427719
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.98.
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Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393 ISBN 13: 9780374249397
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Published by Harper Perennial, 2009
ISBN 10: 1841154768 ISBN 13: 9781841154763
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393 ISBN 13: 9780374249397
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First Edition
hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. No dust jacket. Very Good or better condition.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0739497774 ISBN 13: 9780739497777
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 184115475X ISBN 13: 9781841154756
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. In The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy, chaotic century. Taking as his starting point a production of Richard Strauss's Salome, conducted by the composer on 16 May 1906 with Puccini, Schoenberg, Berg and Adolf Hitler seated in the stalls, Ross suggests how this evening can be considered the century's musical watershed rather the riotous premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seven years later. Ross goes on to explore the mythology of modernism, Sibelius and the music of small countries, Kurt Weill, the music of the Third Reich, Britten, Boulez and the post-war avant-garde, and interactions between minimalist composers and rock bands in the sixties and seventies. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Picador USA
ISBN 10: 0274885395 ISBN 13: 9780274885398
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Published by Blackstone Audiobooks, 2007
ISBN 10: 1433207931 ISBN 13: 9781433207938
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Audio Book (CD). Condition: Good. Unabridged. A colorful history of modern music is set against the backdrop of the events, personalities, social institutions, and cultural movements of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of mass culture and mass politics, technological innovation, revolution, social experiments, and more in terms of the music of the era. Simultaneous.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393 ISBN 13: 9780374249397
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 624 pages; B&W photographs. Cocked spine. Very minor smudges to DJ and to the exterior edges of textblock. Rubbing to DJ. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393 ISBN 13: 9780374249397
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 624p. A hardcover book in good condition. Several spotty stains on the dustjacket; mild edgewear. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight.
Published by FourthEstate / HarperCollins 2008, 2008
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Super octavo, hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by Fourth Estate, London,, 2008
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Reprint. Octavo hardcover; black boards with silver gilt spine titling and black endpapers; 624pp., monochrome plates. Densely spotted upper text block edge and scattered spotting on other edges with toning. Black dustwrapper slightly worn at edges and corners. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music. The idea is not simply to conduct a survey of 20th-century classical composition but to come up with a history of that century as refracted through its music. We start with Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, "the titans of Austro-German music" in Graz, on May 16, 1906. Strauss is there to conduct a performance of his opera Salome. It turns into an extraordinary night - not because of the shrieks, discords and howls of the music but because, to Mahler's astonishment, the audience loves it. This may have been "just one event in a busy season, but, like a flash of lightning, it illuminated a musical world on the verge of traumatic change. Past and future were colliding; centuries were passing in the night." Vividly actualized, extensively and astutely analyzed, the episode also serves as a model for the book as a whole. Time and again Ross finds an event that expresses a larger movement - a person or a scene in which tendencies and meaning converge. In Paris, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie stand for a "stripped-down, folk-based, jazz-happy" avant-garde, while in Vienna Arnold Schoenberg and his 12-tone progeny, Anton Webern and Alban Berg, illuminate "the terrible depths with their holy torches." From Stravinsky to Sibelius to Schoenberg (who "learned instrumental forms by subscribing to an encyclopedia, and waited for the S volume to arrive before composing a sonata"), the emerging heavyweights of the new music are sketched with a brevity and confidence that are the products, surely, of deep immersion and study. Steeped though Ross is in Theodor Adorno and Thomas Mann, his own style is mercifully free of the "implacable imperative of density" commended by the critic-devil in Mann's Doctor Faustus (a novel that provides a framing parable for the book's early sections). As Ross examines the compromised fate of composers under Stalin and Hitler, the book . rises to embrace its darker purpose. Inevitably Dmitri Shostakovich is the emblematically contorted figure, moving from derisory laughter at the very idea of having to explain "the socioeconomic dimensions of the music of Chopin and Liszt" to an uncomfortable accommodation with the state that both facilitates and threatens his work. In post-Wagnerian Germany, meanwhile, could something ominous be heard looming in all those "humongous Teutonic symphonies"? Conceding from the outset that "no composer more painfully exhibited the moral collapse of German art than Richard Strauss," Ross probes the composer's complex, often contradictory relation to the Nazi regime with considerable dexterity. This is where the debate at the conceptual heart of Ross's undertaking is thrown into sharpest focus: is the history of music self-contained or can a larger, extramusical history be distilled from it? Actually, as Ross makes clear, the alternatives are mutually implicated and imbricated: "precisely because of its inarticulate nature," music is "all too easily imprinte.
Published by Fourth Estate, 2008
ISBN 10: 184115475X ISBN 13: 9781841154756
Seller: Mungobooks, Poole, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Book and jacket in near fine condition with no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Am happy to supply scans. Heavy book so extra postage will be payable to overseas destinations.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
ISBN 10: 0374249393 ISBN 13: 9780374249397
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing signed by Ross on the title page. A well-kept copy in VG+ condition. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 8vo. 624pp. Signed by Author.
Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2007
Seller: In 't Wasdom - antiquariaat Cornelissen & De Jong, Notter, Netherlands
Condition: Very Good. Very good, hardcover with dust jacket, 624 pp., ill. (pictures [bl./white]), with notes, index Sent as parcel post.