Twentieth Century Music : An Introduction

, by Salzman, Eric

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ISBN: 9780139350573 | 0139350578
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/2002

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Shows the relationship between contemporary music and the past. Deals with the music itself and musical ideas.

Introduction	p. 1
Twentieth-Century Music and the Past	p. 1
Bibliographical Notes	p. 6
The Breakdown of Traditional Tonality	p. 9
The Sources
Bibliographical Notes	p. 15
The Revolution: Paris	p. 17
Debussy	p. 20
After Debussy	p. 24
The Russians	p. 26
Bibliographical Notes	p. 30
The Revolution: Vienna	p. 33
Schoenberg	p. 33
Berg and Webern	p. 37
Bibliographical Notes	p. 44
The New Tonalities	p. 45
Stravinsky and Neo-Classicism	p. 45
Bibliographical Notes	p. 52
Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality in France	p. 54
Ravel	p. 55
"Les Six"	p. 57
Bibliographical Notes	p. 61
Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality Outside of France	p. 62
Hindemith and Gebrauchsmusik	p. 62
The Diffusion of Neo-classicism	p. 66
Bibliographical Notes	p. 68
National Styles	p. 70
Eastern Europe: Bartok	p. 71
Eastern Europe: Hungary and Czechoslovakia	p. 75
Eastern Europe: Russia	p. 77
Northern Europe: Scandinavia	p. 80
Northern Europe: England	p. 81
Southern Europe: Italy and Spain	p. 83
Latin America	p. 86
The United States	p. 87
Bibliographical Notes	p. 90
Musical Theater	p. 93
Puccini and Verismo	p. 94
The Wagnerian Tradition and Expressionist Opera	p. 95
The Mixed Genre and Chamber Opera	p. 100
Opera in English	p. 104
Bibliographical Notes	p. 105
Atonality and Twelve-tone Music	p. 109
The Viennese School	p. 109
Schoenberg and the Twelve-tone Idea	p. 109
Berg and Webern	p. 116
Bibliographical Notes	p. 119
The Diffusion of Twelve-Tone Music	p. 121
Central Europe	p. 122
Elsewhere in Europe	p. 123
The United States	p. 127
Bibliographical Notes	p. 130
The Avant-garde	p. 131
Introduction: Before World War II	p. 131
Sources	p. 133
Ives	p. 134
Other Innovators: Varese	p. 137
Cowell: Non-Western Influences	p. 142
Bibliographical Notes	p. 143
Technological Culture and Electronic Music	p. 146
The Background	p. 147
Principal Centers	p. 149
Bibliographical Notes	p. 151
Ultra-Rationality and Serialism	p. 153
Babbitt and American Serialism	p. 154
European Serialism	p. 155
Bibliographical Notes	p. 158
Anti-Rationality and Aleatory	p. 159
Cage and His "School"	p. 159
Bibliographical Notes	p. 164
The New Performed Music: The United States	p. 166
The New Virtuosity	p. 168
"Third Stream"; The New Performance Practice	p. 174
Bibliographical Notes	p. 176
Post-Serialism: The New Performance Practice in Europe	p. 178
Stockhausen	p. 179
Boulez	p. 182
Xenakis and Eastern Europe	p. 185
Italy	p. 186
Bibliographical Notes	p. 188
Post-modernism	p. 191
Beyond Modern Music	p. 191
The Setting for Post-modernism	p. 192
Happenings, Concept Art, the New Ensembles	p. 194
Sound as Image: Music and Language	p. 199
Bibliographical Notes	p. 202
Back to Tonality	p. 204
The Darmstadt Controversy	p. 204
Neo-Romanticism	p. 207
Neo-expressionism and New Tonality in Europe	p. 209
Minimalism	p. 215
Bibliographical Notes	p. 221
Pop as Culture	p. 223
Jazz and Rock	p. 223
Non-Western Currents and New-age Music	p. 229
Bibliographical Notes	p. 231
Media and Theater	p. 234
Media and Multi-media	p. 234
Performance Art and Music Theater	p. 238
The New Musical Culture	p. 245
Bibliographical Notes	p. 246
Music Examples	p. 248
Index	p. 313
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