Music in the twentieth century
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Music in the twentieth century
(Heritage of music / edited by Michael Raeburn and Alan Kendall, v. 4)
Oxford University Press, 1989
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Description and Table of Contents
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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