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Author Straus, Joseph Nathan.

Title Twelve-tone music in America / Joseph N. Straus.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML200.5 .S767 2009    Available  ---
Description xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.
Series Music in the twentieth century ; 25
Music in the twentieth century ; 25.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index.
Contents Part one. Thirty-seven ways to write a twelve-tone piece. "Ultramodern" composers : Adolph Weiss, Wallingford Riegger, Carl Ruggles, and Ruth Crawford Seeger -- European immigrants : Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Krenek, Igor Stavinsky, and Stefan Wolpe -- Postwar pioneers : Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, George Perle, Aaron Copland, and Roger Sessions -- An older generation (composers born before 1920) : Ben Weber, George Rochberg, Ross Lee Finney, Barbara Pentland, and Roque Cordero -- Some serial neoclassicists, tonalists, jazzers, and minimalists : Arthur Berger, Irving Fine, Louise Talma, Samuel Barber, Gunther Schuller, Hale Smith, and Michael Torke -- A middle generation (composers born between 1920 and 1940) : Charles Wuorinen, Donald Martino, Ralph Shapey, Ursula Mamlok, Peter Westergaard, Leonard Rosenman, and Mel Powell -- A younger generation (composers born after 1940) : Joseph Schwantner, Robert Morris, Peter Lieberson, Andrew Mead, and Jeff Nichols -- -- Part two. American twelve-tone music in context. The composition of twelve-tone music in America -- The history of twelve-tone music in America -- The reception of twelve-tone music in America -- Conclusion.
Subject Twelve-tone system -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Twelve-tone system.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
ISBN 9780521899550 hardback
0521899559 hardback