Twentieth-century music : an introduction / Eric Salzman.

Author/creator Salzman, Eric
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Descriptionxiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Music--20th century. --History and criticism.

SeriesPrentice-Hall history of music series
Prentice-Hall history of music series. ^A256410
Contents Part one. Twentieth-century music and the past -- Part two. The breakdown of traditional tonality. The sources -- The revolution: Paris. Debussy ; After Debussy ; The Russians -- The revolution: Vienna. Berg and Webern -- Part three. The new tonalities. Stravinsky and neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality in France. Ravel ; "Les Six" -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality outside of France. Hindemith and Gebrauchsmusik ; The diffusion of neo-classicism -- National styles. Eastern Europe: Bartók ; Eastern Europe: Hungary and Czechoslovakia ; Eastern Europe: Russia ; Northern Europe: Scandinavia ; Northern Europe: England ; Southern Europe: Italy and Spain ; Latin America ; The United States -- Musical theatre. Puccini and verisimo ; The Wagnerian tradition and expressionist opera ; The mixed genre and chamber orchestra ; Opera in English -- Part four. Atonality and twelve-tone music. The Viennese school. Schoenberg and the twelve-tone idea ; Berg and Webern -- The diffusion of twelve-tone music. Central Europe ; Elsewhere in Europe ; The United States -- Part five. The avant-garde and beyond. Introduction: before world war II. Sources ; Ives ; Other innovators ; Varèse ; Cowell ; Non-western influences -- Technological culture and electronic music. The background ; Principal centers -- Ultra-rationality and serialism. Babbitt and American serialism ; European serialism -- Anti-rationality and aleatory -- The new performed music: America. The new virtuosity ; "Third Stream"; the new performance practice -- Post-serialism: the new performance practice in Europe. Stockhausen ; Boulez ; Xenakis and Eastern Europe ; Italy -- Beyond modern music. Minimalism and concept art ; The new pop culture ; Sound as image; music and language ; Multi-media and music theater -- Appendix: Musical examples.
Abstract This book covers the vast upheavals and changes of the 1960s and 1970s and describes the new forces set in motion. Close attention to the entire period since World War II gives readers vital perspectives and concepts, previously unavailable, regarding the immediate past. Early twentieth-century music, with its introduction of new tonalitites, atonalities, harmonies, timbres, and rhythmic styles so different from nineteenth-century music, is nevertheless also an outgrowth of tradition, and the connections with--as well as the distinctions from--the past are thoroughly explored here. The new and perhaps more profound changes of the second half of the century are put in an equally broad perspective in the final section of the book.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 73017211
ISBN0139350152
ISBN0139350071 (pbk.)

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