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Prelude: A historical introduction. Before World War I ; The inter-war years ; From 1945 to the late 1960s ; The late 20th century -- Twentieth-century chamber music: an Introduction. A musical narrative: Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht ; Time present and time past: two sonatas for violin and piano by Charles Ives ; Wheels come full circle: Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maitre -- Music and literature I: program music. Narrative and temporal programs: Berg and Carter ; Scenes outside time: Debussy and Stravinsky ; Hearing time stop: Messiaen ; Musical montage and ambiguous signs: Debussy -- Music and literature II: Vocal chamber music. Before World War I: Schoenberg and others ; Old and new after 1945: Stravinsky and Berio ; After the 1950s: Chamber and chamber-theater pieces -- New ensembles, new works. Three early modern works: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Debussy ; Contrasts and Duets ; Contrasts: Bartók, Messiaen, Babbitt ; Chamber music with percussion: Cage, Stockhausen, Carter, Bartók ; Chamber music for performers and tape ; Duets for live performers ; Sui generis ensembles -- The modern sonata. The modern "Baroque" sonata: Bartók ; The modern "classical" sonata: Prokofiev, Ravel, Stravinsky ; The modern sonata: Debussy, Bartok, Poulenc, Carter -- The string quartet. Before World War I: Ravel, Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, and Ives ; Schoenberg, Bartók, Shostakovich, Seeger ; The post-1945 quartet in the United States. |
