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Twentieth-century music : an introduction / Eric Salzman.
Van Pelt - Marian Anderson Music Study Center (452) ML197 .S17 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salzman, Eric.
- Series:
- Prentice-Hall history of music series
- Prentice-Hall history of music series.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- 20th century music.
- Place of Publication:
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1988]
- Contents:
- 1 Twentieth-Century Music and the Past 1
- Part 2 The Breakdown of Traditional Tonality 9
- 3 The Revolution: Paris 17
- Debussy 20
- After Debussy 24
- The Russians 26
- 4 The Revolution: Vienna 33
- Schoenberg 33
- Berg and Webern 37
- Part 3 The New Tonalities 45
- 5 Stravinsky and Neo-Classicism 45
- 6 Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality in France 54
- Ravel 55
- "Les Six" 57
- 7 Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality Outside of France 62
- Hindemith and Gebrauchsmusik 62
- The Diffusion of Neo-classicism 66
- 8 National Styles 70
- Eastern Europe: Bartok 71
- Eastern Europe: Hungary and Czechoslovakia 75
- Eastern Europe: Russia 77
- Northern Europe: Scandinavia 80
- Northern Europe: England 81
- Southern Europe: Italy and Spain 83
- Latin America 86
- The United States 87
- 9 Musical Theater 93
- Puccini and Verismo 94
- The Wagnerian Tradition and Expressionist Opera 95
- The Mixed Genre and Chamber Opera 100
- Opera in English 104
- Part 4 Atonality and Twelve-tone Music 109
- 10 The Viennese School 109
- Schoenberg and the Twelve-tone Idea 109
- Berg and Webern 116
- 11 The Diffusion of Twelve-Tone Music 121
- Central Europe 122
- Elsewhere in Europe 123
- The United States 127
- Part 5 The Avant-garde 131
- 12 Introduction: Before World War II 131
- Ives 134
- Other Innovators: Varese 137
- Cowell: Non-Western Influences 142
- 13 Technological Culture and Electronic Music 146
- Principal Centers 149
- 14 Ultra-Rationality and Serialism 153
- Babbitt and American Serialism 154
- European Serialism 155
- 15 Anti-Rationality and Aleatory 159
- Cage and His "School" 159
- 16 The New Performed Music: The United States 166
- The New Virtuosity 168
- "Third Stream"; The New Performance Practice 174
- 17 Post-Serialism: The New Performance Practice in Europe 178
- Stockhausen 179
- Boulez 182
- Xenakis and Eastern Europe 185
- Italy 186
- Part 6 Post-modernism 191
- 18 Beyond Modern Music 191
- The Setting for Post-modernism 192
- Happenings, Concept Art, the New Ensembles 194
- Sound as Image: Music and Language 199
- 19 Back to Tonality 204
- The Darmstadt Controversy 204
- Neo-Romanticism 207
- Neo-expressionism and New Tonality in Europe 209
- Minimalism 215
- 20 Pop as Culture 223
- Jazz and Rock 223
- Non-Western Currents and New-age Music 229
- 21 Media and Theater 234
- Media and Multi-media 234
- Performance Art and Music Theater 238
- The New Musical Culture 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0139350578
- OCLC:
- 16472491
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