Author : Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN :
A collection of essays on 20th-century classical music, primarily written by the composers and performers who made the music. Designed as introduction to 20th-century music, the editors draw on original writings from Charles Ives to Phillip Glass.
Author : Alex Ross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1429932880
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The 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 Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Author : Robert Stephan Hines
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780806108629
Author : George Perle
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780945193371
George Perle has divided this collection into four parts Composers and Works (Bartïk Berg Schoenberg Scriabin and Webern Towards a New Musical Language Some Critical Appraisals of Contemporary Music Theory and On Listening to Modern Music. These 23 articles reviews lectures and speeches represent the best of 50 years of musical thought and insight by one of the keenest musical minds of this century. Sharing this particular composer's point of view leads the reader to an understanding of the linear progression(not easily apparent) from the last century to the next.
Author : Eric Salzman
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN :
Offering complete, accurate coverage in a tightly condensed, simple format, this comprehensive exploration of modern music (to 1998) deals primarily with the music itself and musical ideas. It puts the whole century in a unified concept, helping readers make sense out of the heterogeneity. It explains the overall development of 20th century music in relation to the past and to two big cycles of contemporary music; and encompasses classical and experimental traditions as well as popular elements, media, multi-media, and theater. Twentieth-Century Music and the Past. THE BREAKDOWN OF TRADITIONAL TONALITY. The Sources. The Revolution: Paris and Vienna. THE NEW TONALITIES. Stravinsky and Neo-Classicism. Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality in France and Outside of France. National Styles. Musical Theater. ATONALITY AND TWELVE-TONE MUSIC. The Viennese School. The Diffusion of Twelve-Tone Music. THE AVANT GARDE. Before World War II. Technological Culture and Electronic Music. Ultra-Rationality and Serialism. Anti-Rationality and Aleatory. The New Performed Music: The United States. Post-Serialism: The New Performance Practice in Europe. POST-MODERNISM. Beyond Modern Music. Back to Tonality. Pop as Culture. Media and Theater. Music Examples. For courses anyone interested in 20th Century Music, Modern Music, or the History of Music.
Author : College Music Society
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781576470701
Wright -- "A closed fist" from Spirals (for violin, viola, and cello) / Judith Lang Zaimont.
Author : Pauline Fairclough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1317005791
When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as a number of the chapters in this volume demonstrate, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, whilst key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and music as both resistance to and instrument of oppression. Taking the contributions together it becomes clear that shared experiences such as war, dictatorship, colonialism, exile and emigration produced different, yet clearly inter-related musical consequences.
Author : John Mauceri
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300265476
A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created voices that were unique and versatile, but superficially simpler. He contends that the fate of composers during World War II is inextricably linked to the political goals of their respective governments, resulting in the silencing of experimental music in Germany, Italy, and Russia; the exodus of composers to America; and the sudden return of experimental music—what he calls “the institutional avant-garde”—as the lingua franca of classical music in the West during the Cold War.
Author : Jay Weldon Wilkey
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Aleatory music
ISBN :
Author : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN :
A lively and readable guide to the music of our century. Distinguished music critic Norman Lebrecht discusses the major composers, conductors, virtuosos, and songwriters who have made the finest music of the last 90 years--from Puccini to Presley, Rachmaninoff to rap. Illustrations.
