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Musical composition in the twentieth century / Arnold Whittall.
| Author/creator | Whittall, Arnold |
| Other author | Whittall, Arnold |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Description | vi, 419 pages : music ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Millennial prelude -- Taking steps: 1900-1918. The meanings of modernism ; Faure ; Puccini ; Elgar and Delius ; Debussy ; Satie ; Ravel ; Debussy analysis ; Mahler ; Sibelius ; Richard Strauss ; Ives ; Rakhmaninov ; Skryabin ; Stravinsky ; Schoenberg ; Bartok ; Berg and Webern ; Webern analysis ; Busoni -- Symphonic music after 1918: I. Nielsen ; Sibelius ; Vaughan Williams ; Roussel, Ravel -- Opera. The background ; Richard Strauss ; Analysis: Capriccio ; Busoni and Weill ; Janacek ; Ravel, Szymanowski ; Prokofiev ; Britten -- Bela Bartok. 1915-1927 ; Analysis: String Quartet no. 3 ; Bartok after 1927 -- Igor Stravinsky: 1913-1951. New paths? ; New techniques ; Analysis: Oedipus Rex and symphony in C ; Stravinsky in the 1940s -- Symphonic music: II. Preliminaries ; The early Hindemith ; String quartet no. 3 ; Hindemith after the third string quartet ; Prokofiev ; Analysis: Prokofiev's symphonies nos. 5 and 6 ; Shostakovich ; Analysis: Shostakovich's symphony no. 10 ; Other symphonies -- Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg in transition ; Schoenberg's twelve-note practice ; Twelve-note music and the voice ; Schoenberg in America ; Analysis: string quartet no. 4 (largo) ; Late works ; The Schoenberg debate -- Alban Berg. Wozzeck ; Chamber concerto ; Lyric Suite ; Der Wein ; Lulu ; Violin concerto -- Anton Webern. The path to twelve-note music ; Twelve-note mastery ; Analysis: string quartet op. 28 ; Webern after op. 28 -- The spread of serialism. Stravinsky ; Sessions ; Gerhard ; Dallapiccola ; Babbitt -- Three individualists. Tippett 1 ; Messiaen 1 ; Carter 1 ; Tippett 2 ; Messiaen 2 ; Carter 2 ; Carter 3 ; Messiaen 3 ; Tippett 3 -- Radicals and rituals. Carmina mundana ; Varese ; A context for John Cage ; Cage ; The forceful and the passive: Nancarrow, Feldman -- Musics of change: seven Europeans. Lutoslawski ; Xenakis ; Ligeti ; Berio ; Boulez ; Henze ; Stockhausen -- The minimalist experiment. Young and Riley ; Reich ; Glass ; Adams ; The sacred and the simple ; Andriessen and others -- Laments and consolations. Bernd Alois Zimmermann ; Symphonists ; Takemitsu ; Silvestrov, Schnittke ; Kurtag ; Nono -- Polarities, pluralities. Lachenmann ; Scelsi ; Donatoni, Kagel ; Maxwell Davies ; Birtwistle ; Ferneyhough ; Murail, Lindberg ; An end-of-century mainstream ; The musicologist speaks. |
| Abstract | This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975, surveying the immense variety of technical developments in twentieth-century music. Sections of detailed analysis, with particular emphasis on such major figures as Stravinsky, Bartok, Messiaen, Tippett, and Ligeti, are framed by more concise sketches of a range of twentieth-century composers from Fauré to Wolfgang Rihm. Extensive musical examples are employed throughout. |
| General note | Revised edition of: Music since the First World War. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-407) and index. |
| LCCN | 99049858 |
| ISBN | 0198166842 (hc) |
| ISBN | 0198166834 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML197 .W55 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |