- Music history, classical music, 20th century music, modern music
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Alex Ross
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 624
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio Inc., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781433207938
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