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Descriptive chronology, 1.1.1900-12.14.2000 -- Letters and documents. Moto proprio of Pope Pius X on sacred music ; Mediator Dei of Pope Pius XII on the sacred liturgy ; The black list of disapproved music ; Three anti-modernist poems: 1884, 1909, 1924 ; Manifesto of futurist musicians ; Technical manifesto of futurist music ; The art of notes ; Down with the tango and Parsifal! ; Futurist manifesto of aeromusic ; History of the Dalcroze method of eurhythmics ; Society for private musical performances in Vienna ; What is atonality? ; Letter from Arnold Schoenberg on the origin of the twelve-tone method of composition ; Letter from Anton Von Webern ; Gebrauchsmusik and Gemeinschaftsmusik ; Letter from George Bernard Shaw ; Letters from Charles E. Ives ; Letters from Edgar Varese ; Letter from the Japanese league of composers ; The ideological platform of the Russian association of proletarian musicians ; Resolution of the union of Soviet composers condemning anti-Soviet activities ; Soviet musical policy, 1948 ; Discussion at a general assembly of Soviet composers, Moscow, 17-26 February 1948 ; Letter of protest from four soviet composeres ; Declaration of the central committee of the communist party of the Soviet Union amending and canceling the resolution of 10 February 1948 and restoring the dignity and integrity of Soviet composers attacked in that resolution ; Declaration of the second international congress of composers and musicologists in Prague, 29 May 1948 ; Declaration made by Nikita Khrushchev on 8 March 1963 stating his views on music in Soviet society ; Charter of the union of Soviet composers ; Appeal for peace addressed to musicians of the world at the international manifestation held in east Berlin on 2 November 1961 ; Musical ideology of the nationalist socialist (Nazi) party ; Hearings regarding Hanns Eisler: Committee on Un-American activities, house of representatives, Washington, D. C., 24, 25, and 26 September 1947 ; The birth of jazz ; Unclassified document, department of the army: communist vulnerabilities to the use of music in psychological warfare ; Resolution of the fire and police research association of Los Angeles on the subversive perils of American folk music ; Debate of folk music at the United States senate ; Letter from Ralph Nader sounding alarm at the noise pollution of the aural environment by the rock-'n'-roll bands ; Statement on the mobilization of the masses to use Mao Tsetung's thought to transform the literary, musical, art and theater front in China ; Has absolute music no class character? ; Criticize the revisionist viewpoint in music ; Record labeling: hearing before the United States senate committee on commerce, science, and transportation -- Dictionary of terms. |
