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Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Western Music in Context

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ISBN-10: 0393929205

ISBN-13: 9780393929201

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joseph Auner, Walter Frisch, Walter Frisch

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Joseph Auner's Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries explores the sense of possibility unleashed by the era's destabilizing military conflicts, social upheavals, and technological advances. Auner shows how the multiplicity of musical styles has called into question traditional assumptions about compositional practice, the boundaries of music and noise, and the relationship among composer, performer, and listener. He also shows how composers and their works have played important roles in defining ideas of nation, race, and gender, and thus in shaping the modern world for better and worse. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/7/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

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Series Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
A Sense of Possibility
Tangled Chaos and the Blank Page
Modern, Modernism, Modernity
Becoming a "Possibilist"
New Possibilities and Perspectives
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From the Turn of the Twentieth Century through World War I
Expanding Musical Worlds
New Inner and Outer Landscapes
Modernism, Modernity, and "Systems of Happiness and Balance"
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony as World
Alma Mahler and the New Woman
Debussy, Symbolism, Exoticism, and the Century of Aeroplanes
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Making New Musical Languages
Atonality, Post-Tonality, and the Emancipation of the Dissonance
Busoni's New Aesthetic of Music
Futurism and The Art of Noises
Strauss and Referential Tonality
Skryabin's New Harmonic Structures
Sehoenberg, Berg, and Webern
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Folk Sources, the Primitive, and the Search for Authenticity
Locating the Folk
Sibelius: Creating Finnishness
Ives's America
Primitivism and the Folk
Bart�k and the Search for a Mother Tongue
Stravinsky, Russianness, and the Folk Estranged
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The Interwar Years
New Music Taking Flight
Europe and America after the War
Radio, Recording, and Film
Music for Use
New Instruments, the Sounds of the City, and Machine Art
Jazz, Race, and the New Music
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Paris, Neoclassicism, and the Art of the Everyday
Neoclassicism
Musical High Life and Low Life
Music and Cultural Politics
Antiquity and Ritual
Eighteenth-Century Sources
Tonality Defamiliarized
The Art of the Everyday
Jazz and "The Primitive"
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The Search for Order and Balance
Cultural Politics of the Search for Order
The Twelve-Tone Method
New Approaches to Rhythm, Texture, and Form
New Tonalities
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Inventing Traditions
Villa-Lobos and Brasilidade
Vaughan Williams and "Englishness"
The Borders of American Music
Copland and the American Landscape
Still and the African-American Experience
McPhee's Imaginary Homeland in Bah
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World War II and Its Aftermath
Rebuilding amid the Ruins
Social Transformations
Britten's War Requiem
Musical Ramifications of the Cold War
Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8
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Trajectories of Order and Chance
Post-World War II Contexts
Twelve-Tone Composition after World War II
Integral Serialism
Chance, Indeterminacy, and the Blank Page
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Electronic Music from the Gold War to the Computer Age
Music, Science, and Technology in the Cold war
Manipulating Sound in the Studio
Musique Concr�te
Notating, Analyzing, and Listening to Electronic Music
Synthesizers
Computer Music
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From the 1960s to the Present
Texture, Timbre, Loops, and Layers
Origins of Texture Music
Ligeri's Sonorous Textures and Micropolyphony
Textual Approaches in the Music of Stockhausen and Boulez
Mathematical Models
Timbre and Extended Techniques
Composing with Layers
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Histories Recollected and Remade
The Past in the Present
Quotation, Protest, and Social Change
Postmodernism
Remaking Traditions
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Minimalism and Its Repercussions
Origins and Locales
Minimalist Art and Musical Processes
Minimalist Sources
Pathways of Postminimalism
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Border Crossings
Global Encounters
Music In-Between
Multimedia and Sound Art
Music, Science, and Technology
Artist and Audience
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Glossary
Endnotes
Credits
Index