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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Alex Ross
Publisher: Picador

I've mentioned a couple times that my Christmas stocking brought me the Alex Ross book The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. The Rest Is Noise, An Occasional Companion: Salome. The Rest Is Noise book download. [1] Alex Ross The Rest is Noise – Listening to the Twentieth Century. Not all of them are music-related, but a high proportion of them are. Alex Ross is the most important arts critic writing for the New Yorker. If we instead understand noise as nonlinearity or incomputable randomness then we may see the European purification of tonality and the subsequent twentieth century battle for the incorporation of noise into music, ostensibly beginning with the futurists and ending with Cage, as a transient localized anomaly, a relatively insignificant blip in the long history of the musical use of noise. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross, can lay some claim to being the music book of the decade. Since I do lot of teaching I read a lot of books.