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Music in the twentieth century

consultant editors, Felix Aprahamian and Wilfrid Mellers

(Heritage of music / edited by Michael Raeburn and Alan Kendall, v. 4)

Oxford University Press, 1989

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Description

This volume, the fourth and final one on the history of western music, concentrates on the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction. Gabriel Faure, Ronald Crichton
  • interlude - the Paris conservatoire
  • Claude Debussy, Felix Aprahamian
  • interlude - the Spanish Renaissance
  • Ravel, Satie and Les Six, Felix Aprahamian
  • Sergei Rachmaninov, Robert Threlfall
  • Jean Sibelius, Robert Layton
  • interlude - the history of recorded sound
  • Elgar and Vaughan Williams, Jerrold Northrop-Moore and Michael Kennedy
  • Janacek and Kodaly, Malcolm Rayment
  • modern music, Wilfrid Mellers
  • interlude - ragtime and jazz
  • Igor Stravinsky, Richard Orton
  • interlude - the revival of early music
  • Schoenberg, Berg and Webern, Paul Griffiths
  • Bartok and Hindemith, Hamish Milne
  • Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Geoffrey Norris
  • Ives and Copland, Peter Dickinson
  • interlude - opera in the twentieth century
  • Britten, Tippett and Walton, Michael Kennedy
  • Messiaen and Boulez, Robert Sherlaw Johnson
  • Varese and Stockhausen, Paul Griffiths
  • interlude - rock music in the 1970s
  • electro-acoustic music, Richard Orton. A-Z of composers, Noel Broome. Credits and cumulative index.

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