Music Since the First World War

This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century. In a concise and accessible narrative, Whittall examines the continued but declining commitment to tonality, twelve-note serialism, and the gradual emergence of new aesthetic attitudes and concepts of musical form.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Survival of Tonality
Symphonic Music I: Nielsen, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, and others	p. 9
Bela Bartok	p. 31
Igor Stravinsky	p. 51
Symphonic Music II: Hindemith, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and others	p. 69
Opera: Richard Strauss, Weill, Janacek, Prokofiev, Britten, and others	p. 93
Twelve-note Music
Arnold Schoenberg	p. 119
Alban Berg	p. 143
Anton Webern	p. 157
The Spread of Serialism: Stravinsky, Sessions, Gerhard, Dallapiccola, Babbitt	p. 177
From Past to Future
The Radical Aesthetic: Satie, Varese, Cage, and others	p. 195
Three Individualists: Tippett, Messiaen, Carter	p. 212
Seven Europeans: Lutoslawski, Xenakis, Ligeti, Berio, Boulez, Henze, Stockhausen	p. 236
Notes on the text	p. 267
Bibliography	p. 274
Index	p. 277
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