The Tree and Me

<p><strong>Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.</strong><br /><br />How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century?<br /><br />What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s?<br /><br />Which classical composers borrowed from jazz?<br /><br />How did composers respond to politics and war?<br /><br /><br />DISCOVER the stories behind Mahler's, Symphony No. 5 (1901-2), Ullman's Piano Sonata No. 7 (1944), Bernstein's West Side Story (1957), as well as learn about minimalism, jazz, swing, opera...<br /><br />AND UNDERSTAND TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICAL MUSIC.<br /><br />Discover the answers and more inside Fiona Maddocks' <em>Twentieth Century Classical Music, </em>the thrilling and accessible account that explains what happened throughout the 20th century, who the key composers were and what influenced them to write what they did.</p>