Twentieth-century music / Elliott Antokoletz.

Author
Antokoletz, Elliott [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©1992.
Description
xiv, 546 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Part one. Music to the late 1940s. Toward expressionism and the transformation of nineteenth-century chromatic tonality
    • Vienna Schoenberg circle : free atonality and expressionism
    • Vienna Schoenberg circle : the twelve-tone idiom
    • Musical reactions to the ultrachromaticism of the Wagner-Strauss period : rise of national styles
    • Béla Bartók in Eastern Europe and the United States
    • Diverse national developments in Europe
    • Music in the United States
    • Early national developments in Latin America
    • The rise of neoclassicism in France : the Cocteau-Satie era and "Les six"
    • Stravinsky in Switzerland and Paris (1914-1939) : The neoclassical style
    • Neotonality and Gebrauchsmusik in Germany
    • The music of Soviet composers
    • Colors, noise, and new sonorities
    • Early developments of the twelve-tone system beyond Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.
    • Part two. Music since the mid 1940s. Total serialization in Europe
    • Varied approaches to the twelve-tone principle and rhythmic formulization in the United States
    • Twelve-tone tonality
    • Musique concrète and electronic music
    • Chance, improvisation, open form, and minimalism
    • Continuation and development of national characteristics and other earlier trends in Europe and the Americas.
    ISBN
    • 0139341269
    • 9780139341267
    LCCN
    90019651
    OCLC
    22629353
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