| Edition |
2d ed. |
| Description |
xxv, 694 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 661-668. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
First revolution -- Old and the new -- Classic-romantic tradition -- Melody in twentieth-century music -- Harmony in twentieth-century music -- New conceptions of tonality -- Rhythm in twentieth-century music -- Texture in twentieth-century music -- New concepts in sonority -- New conceptions of form -- Before World War I (1900-1914) -- After Romanticism -- Postromantic generation -- Gustav Mahler ǂg (1860-1911) -- Richard Strauss ǂg (1864-1949) -- Other composers of the postromantic era -- Impressionism -- Impressionist movement -- Impressionist methods -- Claude Debussy (1862-1918) -- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) -- Other impressionists -- Away from impressionism : Erik Satie (1866-1925) -- Three revolutionary works -- Bela Bartok : Allegro Barbaro -- Igor Stravinsky : Le sacre du printemps -- Arnold Schoenberg : Pierrot lunaire -- Between the wars (1920-1940) -- Central group -- New trends: the flight from romanticism -- New classicism -- Igor Stravinsky ǂg (1882-1971) -- Two works by Stravinsky -- Bela Bartok ǂg (1881-1945) -- Two works by Bartok -- Paul Hindemith -- Les six -- Russians -- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) -- Dmitri Shostakovitch (1906-1976) -- Twelve-tone music -- Arnold Schoenberg (1885-1951) -- Two works by Schoenberg -- Alban Berg ǂg (1883-1945)-- Anton Webern (1883-1945) -- Other significant figures -- Loes Janacek ǂg (1854-1928) -- Ralph Vaughan Williams ǂg (1872-1958) -- Kurt Weill (1900-1950) -- Other European composers between the wars (I) -- Other European composers between the wars (II) -- American scene -- Music in America -- American impressionists -- Charles Ives (1874-1954) -- Twenties -- Edgard Varese (1883-1965) -- Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) -- Experimental composers of the twenties -- Thirties -- George Gershwin (1898-1937) -- Aaron Copland (1900- ) -- Roger Sessions ǂg (1896- ) -- Other composers between the wars : Douglas Moore, Walter Piston, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris, Randall Thompson, others -- Latin America : Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Chavez, others -- Second revolution -- After World War II -- Postwar scene -- European masters in America -- New trends -- New sounds -- Aspects of music -- Aspects of new music -- Four representative European composers : Olivier Messiaen (1908- ), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928- ), Pierre Boulez ǂg (1925- ) -- Four representative American composers -- John Cage (1912- ) Elliott Carter (1908- ), Milton Babbitt (1916- ), George Crumb (1929- ) -- Dictionary of contemporary composers and their recorded works -- Appendices. Basic concepts -- Texts and translations of vocal works -- A reading list of books and articles on twentieth-century music -- Synoptic table. |
| Local Note |
Talbott Copy 2 Circulates |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Music appreciation.
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Music appreciation. |
| ISBN |
0393090264 |
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