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Music of the Twentieth Century

Music of the Twentieth Century
Author: Ton de Leeuw
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9053567658

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Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.


Twentieth-century Music

Twentieth-century Music
Author: Robert P. Morgan
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 554
Release: 1991
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393952728

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Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky


Music and International History in the Twentieth Century

Music and International History in the Twentieth Century
Author: Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782385010

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Bringing together scholars from the fields of musicology and international history, this book investigates the significance of music to foreign relations, and how it affected the interaction of nations since the late 19th century. For more than a century, both state and non-state actors have sought to employ sound and harmony to influence allies and enemies, resolve conflicts, and export their own culture around the world. This book asks how we can understand music as an instrument of power and influence, and how the cultural encounters fostered by music changes our ideas about international history.


The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music
Author: Nicholas Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 848
Release: 2004-08-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521662567

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The World of Twentieth-century Music

The World of Twentieth-century Music
Author: David Ewen
Publisher: Robert Hale
Total Pages: 990
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 9780709043980

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A comprehensive study of modern music which explores its development from 1900 to the present day. Entries on each composer give critical consensus, a brief biography and list of works in order of composition. The author has also written The Complete Book of Classical Music.


American Music in the Twentieth Century

American Music in the Twentieth Century
Author: Kyle Gann
Publisher: Schirmer
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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American Music in the Twentieth Century surveys the art music written in the United States during the last 100 years from the groundbreaking experiments of Charles Ives to the present day. Writing for the general reader, Kyle Gann describes the characteristic sounds of the diverse movements that have sprung up in this eventful period, while at the same time he sketches the changing social and cultural contexts for American concert music, and provides concise biographies of key figures.


Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
Author: Arnold Whittall
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 419
Release: 1999
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780198166832

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Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century builds on the foundations of Music since the First World War (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975. The focus is on matters of compositional technique, with sections of detailed analytical comment framed by more concise sketches of a range of twentieth-century composers from Faure to Wolfgang Rihm.Extensive music examples reinforce this technical focus. Though in no sense a history of music concerned primarily with the institutional and critical climate within which composers live and work, nor an encyclopedia dealing with every significant composer, Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century offers a critical engagement with that confrontation between tradition and innovation to which twentieth-century composers have responded with resourcefulness and vitality.


Exploring Twentieth-Century Music

Exploring Twentieth-Century Music
Author: Arnold Whittall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003-02-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521016681

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In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century.


The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise
Author: Alex Ross
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1429932880

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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.


A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context
Author: Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135037302

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A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework. While the organization is topical, it is historical within that framework. Musical issues interwoven with political, cultural, and social conditions have had a significant impact on the course of twentieth-century musical tendencies and styles. The goal of this book is to provide a theoretic-analytical basis that will appeal to those instructors who want to incorporate into student learning an analysis of the musical works that have reflected cultural influences on the major musical phenomena of the twentieth century. Focusing on the wide variety of theoretical issues spawned by twentieth-century music, A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context reflects the theoretical/analytical essence of musical structure and design.