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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Straus, Joseph Nathan.

Series:

Music in the twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twelve-tone system--United States--History--20th century.

Twelve-tone system.

Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 301 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521899550

0521899559

OCLC:

308198304