Anthology for Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / compiled and annotated by Joseph Auner.

Format:

Musical score

Contributor:

Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959- compiler.

Hilda A. Wurtman Memorial Fund.

Series:

Western music in context

Western music in context : a Norton history

Language:

English

German

Latin

Subjects (All):

Musical analysis--Music collections.

Musical analysis.

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

Music.

Music--21st century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Collections.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 score (x, 308, A10 pages) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Anthology, music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]

Language Note:

Vocal selections in English, German or Latin.

Summary:

Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Twenty-six carefully chosen works-including music by Igor Stravinsky, Kurt Weill, William Grant Still, Pauline Oliveros, and Chen Yi-offer representative examples of genres and composers of the period. Commentaries following each score present a careful analysis of the music, and online links to purchase and download recordings make listening easier than ever. Music in the Twentieth and Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries explores the sense of possibility unleashed by the era's profoundly destabilizing military conflicts, social upheavals, and technological advances. Like the other volumes in Western Music in Context, Auner's text looks at music in the broadest sense-as sounds notated, performed, and heard-focusing not only on composers and works but also on broader social and intellectual currents. The easy-to-navigate student website, StudySpace, offers playlists that include streaming music from the Naxos Music Library (through an institutional or individual subscription) and Metropolitan Opera video (for an additional fee); and resources for further research. Book jacket.

Contents:

Symphony no. 3 in D minor. Movement 4 / Gustav Mahler

Estampes. Pagodes / Claude Debussy

Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21. Mondestrunken / Arnold Schoenberg

Wozzeck. Act 3. Transition and Scene 3 / Alban Berg

Symphony no. 1. Movement 1 / Charles Ives

Le sacre du printemps. Part 1. Introduction / Igor Stravinsky

Der Lindberghflug. Introduction of the pilot / Kurt Weill

Symphony de psaumes. Movement 2 / Igor Stravinsky

Concerto in G for piano and orchestra. Movement 1 / Maurice Ravel

Piano piece, op. 33a / Arnold Schoenberg

Symphony, op. 21. Movement 2, Variations / Anton Webern

Music for strings, percussion, and celesta. Movement 1 / Béla Bartók

Billy the Kid suite. Street in a frontier town (excerpt) / Aaron Copland

Africa. Part 2, Land of romance / William Grant Still

War Requiem, op. 66. Requiem aeternam / Benjamin Britten

String quartet no. 8, op. 110. Movement 3 / Dmitri Shostakovich

Le marteau sans maître. Movement 5, Bel édifice et les pressentiments / Pierre Boulez

Traveling companions / Pauline Oliveros

Synchronisms no. 6 (excerpt) / Mario Davidovsky

NoaNoa / Kaija Saariaho

Continuum / György Ligeti

String quartet no. 5. Introduction, Giocoso, Interlude I, Lento espressivo / Elliott Carter

Vox balaenae. Vocalise

for the beginning of time / George Crumb

Ba ban / Chen Yi

Violin phase (excerpt) / Steve Reich

Doctor Atomic. Act 1. Scene 3, Batter my heart / John Adams.

Notes:

Companion volume to the book Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by Joseph Auner. May also be used on its own.

Each selection followed by its text, when present, with English translation, and an analysis written by Auner.

Includes three appendices: on reading an orchestral score; instrument names and abbreviations and note names in English, French, German, and Italian; and a glossary of stylistic terms.

Synchronisms no. 6: Pulitzer Prize for Music - Winner, 1971

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hilda A. Wurtman Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780393920215

0393920216

OCLC:

807025407

Publisher Number:

9780393920215