20/20 : 20 new sounds of the 20th century
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20/20 : 20 new sounds of the 20th century
Schirmer Books, 1999
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Sony Music: A 30946
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Prelude to the afternoon of a faun / Claude Debussy
- Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin
- The rite of spring / Igor Stravinsky
- Pierrot lunaire / Arnold Schoenberg
- The concord sonata / Charles Ives
- Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin
- Bolero / Maurice Ravel
- Quartet for the end of time / Olivier Messiaen
- Appalachian spring / Aaron Copland
- Sonatas and interludes / John Cage
- Mysterious mountain / Alan Hovhaness
- In C / Terry Riley
- Drumming / Steve Reich
- I am sitting in a room / Alvin Lucier
- 4th string quartet : Amazing Grace / Ben Johnston
- Einstein on the beach / Philip Glass
- Perfect lives / Robert Ashley
- O Superman / Laurie Anderson
- Miserere / Arvo Pärt
- Atlas / Meredith Monk
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Description
Duckworth (music, Bucknell U.) introduces students and music lovers to the changing styles of classical music of the century. He first explores some of the difficulties people have appreciating it, then highlights 20 pieces chronologically by composers from Claude Debussy and Scott Joplin to Arvo P
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