Product Description
Simmons examines those composers whose styles maintain continuity with the values and principles developed during the 19th century. The six composers chosen are each presented through a biographical overview, followed by a comprehensive assessment of their bodies of work. Each composer's musical output is discussed according to its stylistic origins and affinities with other composers, phases or periods of development, as well as strengths and weaknesses. Each chapter concludes with a discography of essential recordings.
About the Author
Walter Simmons is a musicologist and critic. He received the National Educational Film Festival Award and the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He has contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, American National Biography, and scores of publications including Fanfare, Music Journal, and Musical America.
