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Music of the Twentieth Century Style and Structure

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ISBN-10: 0028723929

ISBN-13: 9780028723921

Edition: 2nd 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Bryan R. Simms

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MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY provides an effective introduction to modern music using clear, comprehensive language. The author weaves together history, theory, and analysis to bring to life both the stylistic evolution of music since 1900 and the new principles by which this music is organized.
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Book details

List price: $149.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 7/12/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 435
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Bryan R. Simms (Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1966; Ph.D., Yale University, 1971) has taught since 1976 at the University of Southern California, where he has been director of graduate studies and is currently chair of the department of musicology. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation. He is the author of books and articles on topics in twentieth-century music and music theory, including MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Schirmer 1996) and, most recently, THE ATONAL MUSIC OF ARNOLD SCHOENBERG, 1908-1923 (Oxford University Press).

Repertory
Introduction
Structural Principles and Compositional Materials of Twentieth-Century Music
Tonality in Transition
Harmonic and Motivic Associations and the "Emancipation of Dissonance"
Triadic Harmony, Diatonic Collections, and Tonality
Serialism
Rhythm and Meter
Orchestration, Tone Color, and Texture
Music from 1900 to 1945
Avant-Garde Composition in Germany and Austria
Avant-Garde Composition in France and Russia
Musical Nationalism
Neoclassicism in France, Germany, and England
Neoclassicism and Populism in American Music
Experimental Music in America
Music from 1945 to the Present
The Revival of the Avant-Garde
Indeterminacy
Electronic Music
Ecleticism
Recent Music in Europe and America
Index