| Description |
xiv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
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Latin Americans : sources, nationalism, Villa-Lobos, Chavez, Revueltas, etc. -- The new aesthetic : effect of war, the machine, phonograph, radio, television, motion pictures, etc. The new "Americanism" -- Explanation of musical terms -- Bibliography -- Pronouncing glossary of foreign names -- Index |
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Schoenberg and his innovations : atonality and twelve tone technique -- Polytonal and atonal ramifications : Neoclassicism, Milhaud, Honegger, Bartok, Spaniards, Poles, etc. -- Polytonal and atonal ramifications (cont.) : dissonant counterpoint, Gebrauchsmusik, quarter tones, ether music, Hindemith, English composers, Schillinger, etc. -- Music, as affected by the war : in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, England, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, etc. -- The new opera : Berg, Hindemith, Weill, Krenek, Honegger, Milhaud, Gruenberg, etc. -- Jazz and American music : what is jazz? Its influence on Europeans and Americans. Ives, Ruggles, Moore, Piston, Hanson, Gershwin, Thomson, Harris, etc. -- American composers of the 1900s : Copland, Blitzstein, Schuman, Barber, Gould, Dello Joio, Cage, Diamond, Bernstein, Foss, etc |
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The art of listening : yesterday and today -- Past innovations and prejudices -- The beginnings of the modern era : Bach and eighteenth century developments -- The classical Viennese era and the Romantic movement : Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin -- Nineteenth century points the way : program music and Postromanticists -- Nationalism based on folk music : Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Norway, England, Spain, America -- Natioanlism in France : "La Societe Nationale de Musique", Cesar Franck and his followers -- Realism : Richard Strauss -- Breaking down established rules : new scales, melodies, chords, harmonic resources, rhythms, etc. -- Impressionistic methods : Debussy and his influence -- Impressionism and the twentieth century renaissance : England, Poland, Hungary, Spain, Italy, America, etc. -- Scriabin, the mystic impressionist -- Sibelius, symphonist and nationalist -- Stravinsky : the musical barometer |
| Summary |
A discussion of the music of the twentieth century and the trends it is setting |
| Notes |
Some music in text |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 423-430 |
| Subject |
Music appreciation.
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Music -- History and criticism -- Modern
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 20th century.
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Music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Musical analysis.
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| LC no. |
47006833 |
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