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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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