The Rest Is Noise Listening to the Twentieth

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics CircleAward for Criticism ANew York Times Book ReviewTop Ten Book of the Year Timemagazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 AWashington Post Book WorldBest Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic forThe New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture.The Rest Is Noiseis an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for significant contributions to the field of contemporary music. The Rest is Noise is his first book.

Preface	p. xv
Where to Listen	p. xix
1900-1933
The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle	p. 3
Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality	p. 36
Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz	p. 80
Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington	p. 130
Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius	p. 171
City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties	p. 194
1933-1945
The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin's Russia	p. 235
Music for All: Music in FDR's America	p. 284
Death Fugue: Music in Hitler's Germany	p. 333
1945-2000
Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music, 1945-1949	p. 373
Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties	p. 386
"Grimes! Grimes!": The Passion of Benjamin Britten	p. 447
Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties	p. 483
Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists	p. 515
Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century's End	p. 558
Epilogue	p. 589
Notes	p. 593
Suggested Listening	p. 651
Acknowledgments	p. 653
Index	p. 657
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The Rest Is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century

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