| Series |
Prentice-Hall history of music series
Prentice-Hall history of music series. ^A256410
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| Contents |
Part one. Twentieth century music and the past -- Part two. The breakdown of traditional tonality. The sources -- The revolution: Paris. Debussy ; After Debussy ; The Russians -- The revolution: Vienna. Schoenberg ; Berg and Webern -- Part three. The new tonalities. Stravinsky and neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality in France. Ravel ; "Les six" -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality outside of France. Hindemith and Gebrauchsmusik ; The diffusion of neo-classicism -- National styles. Eastern Europe: Bartok ; Eastern Europe: Hungary and Czechoslovakia ; Eastern Europe: Russia ; Northern Europe: Scandinavia ; Northern Europe: England ; Southern Europe: Italy and Spain ; Latin America ; The United States -- Musical theater. Puccini and Verismo ; The Wagnerian tradition and expressionist opera ; The mixed genre and chamber opera ; Opera in English -- Part four. Atonality and twelve-tone music. The Viennese school. Schoenberg and the twelve-tone idea ; Berg and Webern -- The diffusion of twelve-tone music. Central Europe ; Elsewhere in Europe ; The United States -- Part five. The avant-garde. Introduction: Before World War II. Sources ; Ives ; Other innovators: Varese ; Cowell: Non-western influences -- Technological culture and electronic music. The background ; Principal centers -- Ultra-rationality and serialism. Babbitt and American serialism ; European serialism -- Anti-rationality and aleatory. Cage and his "School" -- The new performed music: the United States. The new virtuosity ; "Third stream"; the new performance practice -- Post-serialism: the new performance practice in Europe. Stockhausen ; Boulez ; Xenakis and eastern Europe ; Italy -- Part six. Post-modernism. Beyond modern music. The setting for post-modernism ; Happenings, concept art, the new ensembles ; Sound as image: music and language -- Back to tonality. The Darmstadt controversy ; Neo-romanticism ; Neo-expressionism and new tonality in Europe ; Minimalism -- Pop as culture. Jazz and rock ; Non-western currents and new-age music -- Media and theater. Media and multi-media ; Performance art and music theater ; The new musical culture. |
| Abstract |
Shows the relationship between contemporary music and the past. Deals with the music itself and musical ideas. |
| Local note | Little-259424--305130013850T |
| Local note | Little-348498--305131055520U |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other title | 20th century music. |
| LCCN | 87019292 |
| ISBN | 0139350578 (pbk.) |
