Illegal Harmonies: Music in the 20th Century - Hardcover
From Debussy to Duke Ellington, Ligeti to Laurie Anderson: Illegal Harmonies is generous and encyclopedic in its scope, sometimes contentious in its assertions, always lively and informative, Andrew Ford encourages the reader to take up his arguments and debate their merits. This book is an expanded version of the series played on Australian Classic FM in 1997.
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Andrew Ford is a composer, writer and broadcaster. Born in Liverpool, England, in 1957, he came to Australia in 1983. Ford's music is performed and broadcast in many countries and has been featured at international festivals in Europe, the United States and Southeast Asia. He writes on a wide range of musical topics, principally for 24 Hours magazine, and he presents Radio National's popular Saturday program 'The Music Show'. A former academic, his last book was Composer to Composer. Andrew Ford lives in Sydney.
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- PublisherHale & Iremonger,Pty.Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0868066354
- ISBN 13 9780868066356
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages266
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