Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) is the central figure in Mexican music of the twentieth century and among the most eminent of all Latin American modernist composers. An enfant terrible in his own country, Chavez was an integral part of the emerging music scene in the United States in the 1920s. His highly individual style--diatonic, dissonant, contrapunt
Author Biography
Leonora Saavedra is associate professor of music at the University of California, Riverside.
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"An insightful volume."--William Robin, The New York Times
