Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America
by Morgan, Robert P.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1991-01-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
Twentieth Century Music is the third volume to appear in this series. Morgan divides his text into three chronological sections. Beginning with such giants as Mahler, Richard Strauss and Debussy, he discusses national movements, as represented by Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams; philosophical movements as various as the Schoenberg/Berg/Webern alliance or "les six"; and the giants who were "sui generis," such as Bartok and Stravinsky. The "isms" such as serialism, minimalism, indeterminism, the new romanticism and pluralism, are clearly delineated and the electronic boom of the last decades is defined.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Musical Background | p. 1 |
| The Historical Context: Europe at the Turn of the Century | p. 11 |
| Some Transitional Figures | p. 18 |
| The Atonal Revolution | p. 62 |
| New Tonalities | p. 89 |
| Other European Currents | p. 111 |
| Beyond the Continent | p. 128 |
| Reconstruction and New Systems: between the Wars | p. 149 |
| The Historical Context: Europe after World War I | p. 151 |
| Neo-Classicism | p. 159 |
| The Twelve-Tone System | p. 187 |
| The Influence of Politics | p. 220 |
| Other Europeans | p. 251 |
| England after World War I | p. 270 |
| The United States | p. 283 |
| Latin America | p. 315 |
| The Historical Context: the World after World War II | p. 325 |
| Integral Serialism | p. 333 |
| Indeterminacy | p. 359 |
| Innovations in Form and Texture | p. 379 |
| The New Pluralism | p. 407 |
| A Return to Simplicity: Minimalism and the New Tonality | p. 423 |
| Music and the External World | p. 441 |
| Developments in Technology: Electronic Music | p. 461 |
| Epilogue: Music Today | p. 481 |
| Bibliography | p. 491 |
| Index | p. 539 |
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