The Agony of Modern Music by Henry Pleasants

The Agony of Modern Music by Henry Pleasants | 180 Pages | Condition: Used - Great (1955 print)

The Modern music is not modern and is rarely music. It represents an attempt to perpetuate a European musical tradition whose technical resources are exhausted, and which no longer has any cultural validity. That it continues to be composed, performed, and discussed represents self-deception by an element of society which refuses to believe that this is true...." First published by Simon and Shuster in 1955.