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A NEW VOICE, A NEW 20TH CENTURY? AN EXPERIMENT WITH SÁNDOR VERESS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2008

Rachel Beckles Willson
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The project of introducing an unknown repertory into discourses on music can be approached in a range of ways. The writer can make a case about its regrettable neglect and its unjustified exclusion from a historical canon, or can argue for its (political) relevance to the present. Or s/he can simply try to persuade readers of its aesthetic qualities: this third desire might well drive the first two, however covertly. The path I take here is unabashedly more ambitious. In attempting to open the hearts and minds of the uninitiated reader to a composer little-known outside Switzerland and Hungary, I will suggest that he offers us a significantly new way of thinking about music history in the 20th century as a whole.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Volume 62 , Issue 243 , January 2008 , pp. 36 - 41
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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