This book considers the value of classical music in contemporary society, arguing that it remains distinctive because it works in quite different ways to most of the other music that surrounds us.

Out of Time explores a bold idea: that western art music of the last four hundred years is better understood through the idea of musical modernity than by the usual periodizations of music history.

Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore the field, and examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality, emotion, the weight of history, and self identity.

This book turns that idea on its head.

This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.

"Zelizer takes the full measure of the entire story [of Johnson's liberal agenda] in all its epic sweep.

Johnson considers how Mahler's body of music foregrounds the idea of artifice, construction and musical convention while also presenting itself as act of authentic expression and disclosure.

... Johnson--indicates that he used an early edition of The Path of the Masters. It is also important to note in passing here that the former President of Eckankar, Dr. Bluth (and an initiate along with Julian Johnson of the late Sawan ...

This book considers the idea of nature in the music of Anton Webern.