American Music in the Twentieth Century

Name: American Music in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780028646558

ISBN-10: 002864655X

ISBN-13: 9780028646558

Edition: 1997

Authors: Kyle Gann

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Kyle Gann examines the characteristic sounds of the diverse movements in American art music from Charles Ives to the present day. He sketches the changing social and cultural contexts of American concert music through the study of representative works of music and key individuals.

Book details

List price: $137.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/21/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English



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Prelude: What is American Music



Forefathers



Ultramodernism-the 1920s



Populism-the 1930s



Experimentalism



Atonality and European Influence



John Cage and the New York School Revolution



Post-Cage Conceptualism



Minimalism



New Tonality 1-The New Romanticism



Electronic Music



Interfaces with Rock and Jazz



New Tonality 2-Postminimalism



Tatalism and the 1990s


Index