| Description |
viii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 409) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. From "The Future of the opera" / Arnold Schoenberg -- From "From my life" / Sergei Prokofiev -- |
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Testing the boundaries between speech and music. From "Genesis of a music" / Harry Partch -- Foreword to "Pierrot Lunaire" / Arnold Schoenberg -- "The relationship to the text" / Arnold Schoenberg -- "Voice in opera" / Alban Berg -- From "Sirens" / James Joyce -- From "The waves" / Virginia Woolf -- From "The music of poetry" / T.S. Eliot -- From "Words, music, and program music" / Carl Nielsen -- From "A composer's world" / Paul Hindemith -- |
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Testing the boundaries between the visual arts and music. Painting and architecture -- From "Harmonielehre" / Arnold Schoenberg -- Letter to Nicholas Slonimsky / George Antheil -- "Composer's notes on 1952-53 re-editing" (of Ballet Mécanique) / George Antheil -- From "Philosophy of modern music" / Theodor Adorno -- (Time canvas) / Morton Feldman -- From "Formalized music" / Iannis Xenakis -- Embodying physical movement: ballet and film -- "The technique of moving plastic" / Émile Jaques-Dalcroze -- From "Composing for the films" / Hanns Eisler -- |
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The new music theater. From "The birth of tragedy" / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Letter to Richard Strauss / Hugo von Hofmannsthal -- "Shifts in musical composition" / Kurt Weill -- "Opera - where to?" / Kurt Weill -- "The 'problem of opera'" / Alban Berg -- From "Is opera still possible today?" / Ernst Krenek -- From "The world of opera" / W.H. Auden -- |
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Fuller universes of music. Abolishing the old rules -- From "Monsieur Croche antidilettante" / Claude Debussy -- From "Sketch of a new esthetic of music" / Ferruccio Busoni -- "Degeneration and regeneration in music" / Max Reger -- From "Essays before a sonata" / Charles Ives -- From "Postface to 114 songs" / Charles Ives -- "Music and its future" / Charles Ives -- "Free music" / Percy Grainger -- Pantonality -- Correspondence / Arnold Schoenberg and Vassily Kandinsky -- Noise -- "The art of noises: futurist manifesto" / Luigi Russolo -- "Music and the Times" / Edgard Varèse -- Fragments from "Silence" / John Cage -- |
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New discipline : the twelve-tone method. From "Composition with twelve tones" : (fiat lux) / Arnold Schoenberg -- From "The path to twelve-note composition" / Anton Webern -- From "Dr. Faustus" / Thomas Mann -- (The twelve-tone method) / Arthur Honegger -- (The twelve-tone method) / Leonard Bernstein -- (The twelve-tone method) / Arthur Honegger -- (The twelve-tone method) / Leonard Bernstein -- (The twelve-tone method) / Benjamin Britten -- |
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Isms. Symbolism -- From "Richard Wagner and Tannhäuser in Paris" / Charles Baudelaire -- From "Swann's way" / Marcel Proust -- Primitivism and exoticism -- "What I wished to express in 'The consecration of spring'" / Igor Stravinsky -- From "An autobiography" / Igor Stravinsky -- "The influence of peasant music on modern music" / Béla Bartók -- Expressionism -- "Beethoven" / Richard Wagner -- "Murderer, hope of women" / Oskar Kokoschka -- From "Die glückliche Hand": (brain-storm) / Arnold Schoenberg -- From "Philosophy of modern music" / Theodor Adorno -- Neoclassicism and the new objectivity -- "Sonnets to Orpheus 1.3" / Rainer Maria Rilke -- From "An autobiography" / Igor Stravinsky -- From "Expositions and developments" (expressivity) / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft -- From "Expositions and developments" (Pulcinella) / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft -- From "Dialogues" / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft -- From "Themes and conclusions" / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft -- From "Three satires" / Arnold Schoenberg -- From "New humanity and old objectivity" / Ernst Krenek -- "Music and mathematics" / Ernst Krenek -- "The age of pastiche" / Constant Lambert -- (Stravinsky as pasticheur) / Constant Lambert -- From "Lectures in America" / Gertrude Stein -- Interview :(Ravel's toys) / Maurice Ravel -- Interview : "Finding tunes in factories" / Maurice Ravel -- Dadaism and surrealism -- "Ursonate" : Rondo / Kurt Schwitters -- Program note for "Parade" / Guillaume Apollinaire -- From "Memoirs of an amnesiac" / Erik Satie -- From "Cock and harlequin" / Jean Cocteau -- "For general intelligibility as a confession" / Erwin Schulhoff -- "Hornpipe" / Edith Sitwell -- From "What is called the new music, and why?" / Ernst Krenek -- |
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Music, social responsibility, and politics. "On old and new music" / Hanns Eisler -- "The modern theatre is the epic theatre" / Bertolt Brecht and Peter Suhrkamp -- "Münchhausen" / Friedrich Hollaender -- "Cabaret" / Friedrich Hollaender -- From "A composer's world" / Paul Hindemith -- "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" : final scene / Peter Kien -- "A survivor from Warsaw" / Arnold Schoenberg -- "Rayok" : the music lesson / L.N. Lebedinski -- |
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Testing the boundaries between popular and high art. "On a negro orchestra" / Ernest Ansermet -- From "The big sea" / Langston Hughes -- "Moon-faced, starry-eyed" / Langston Hughes -- "The Negroes are conquering Europe" / Ivan Goll -- From "Tune in, America" / Daniel Gregory Mason -- "The composer and the machine age" / George Gershwin -- "The Negro on the spiral, or, A method of Negro music" / George Antheil -- "Has jazz influenced the symphony?" / Gene Krupa and Leonard Bernstein -- "Once again swing" / Elliott Carter -- From "The rhythmic basis of American music" / Elliott Carter. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Modernism (Music)
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Modernism (Music) |
| Added Author |
Albright, Daniel, 1945-2015.
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| ISBN |
0226012662 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226012670 paperback alkaline paper |
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