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1. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

   By Eduardo de la Fuente

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge