Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music by Theodore Baker Ferruccio Busoni, first published in 1911, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great l

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This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music—from chromaticism, se

If in earlier eras music may have seemed slow to respond to advances in other artistic media, during the modernist age it asserted itself in the vanguard. Moder