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Twelve-Tone Music In America - Music In The Twentieth Century, 25

by Joseph N. (City University Of New York) Straus

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 Twelve-tone composition has played an important role in American music from 1927 to the present day. Through close readings of many twelve-tone works, including pieces by Copland, Babbitt, and Carter, this book places twelve-tone music in a larger theoretical and historical context, and strips away the many myths surrounding it.
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Boulez, Music And Philosophy - Music In The Twentieth Century, 27

by Edward (University Of Aberdeen) Campbell

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 Tracing the changing musical, philosophical and intellectual currents of thought which inform Boulez's work, this study enhances understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez's distinctive approach to composition. Campbell investigates encounters which link Boulez to the work of a number of important philosophers and thinkers, including Adorno, LÃ©vi-Strauss, and Deleuze.
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Ligeti, Kurtag, And Hungarian Music During The Cold War - Music In The Twentieth Century, 23

by Rachel (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Beckles Willson

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 Drawing on key elements from musical thought in inter-war Hungary, this 2007 book provides a unique perspective on the nation's musical heritage during the Cold War. Although Ligeti became part of the Western avant-garde after he left Hungary in 1956, archival sources illuminate his ongoing contact with Hungarian musicians, and their shifting perspective on his work.
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Musical Modernism At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century - Music In The Twentieth Century, 26

by David (University Of British Columbia, Vancouver) Metzer

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 In this book, David Metzer provides intriguing perspectives on both developments in music from 1980 onwards and the larger history of modernism, showing how modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary scene. The study investigates what makes the decades after 1980 a distinct period in the history of modernism.
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Twelve-Tone Music In America

by Joseph N. (City University Of New York) Straus

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 Twelve-tone composition has played an important role in American music from 1927 to the present day. Through close readings of many twelve-tone works, including pieces by Copland, Babbitt, and Carter, this book places twelve-tone music in a larger theoretical and historical context, and strips away the many myths surrounding it.
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Schoenberg'S Transformation Of Musical Language - Music In The Twentieth Century, 22

by Ethan (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Haimo

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 One of the most influential composers of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg's musical innovations still resonate today. Ethan Haimo challenges the popular notion that Schoenberg's atonal music made a revolutionary break with the past, arguing that his music instead transformed the past through a series of incremental changes.
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Musical Modernism At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century - Music In The Twentieth Century, 26

by David (University Of British Columbia, Vancouver) Metzer

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 In this book, David Metzer provides intriguing perspectives on both developments in music from 1980 onwards and the larger history of modernism, showing how modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary scene. The study investigates what makes the decades after 1980 a distinct period in the history of modernism.
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Arnold Schoenberg - Notes, Sets, Forms

by Silvina Milstein

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 In this thought provoking study, Silvina Milstein proposes a reconstruction of Schoenberg's conception of compositional process in his twelve-tone works, which challenges the prevalent view that this music is to be appropriately understood exclusively in terms of the new method.
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Satie The Composer - Music In The Twentieth Century

by Robert Orledge

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 Erik Satie remains one of the most bizarre figures in music history, yet everything he did has its own curious logic, once it can be perceived. In this important new study Dr Orledge reveals what made Satie 'tick' as a composer, dealing with every aspect of Satie's complex career and relating his achievement to the other arts and to the society in which he lived.
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Edward Elgar, Modernist - Music In The Twentieth Century, 20

by J. P. E. (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Harper-Scott

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 The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book gives a historical overview of its place in European musical history. Harper-Scott argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a pessimistic twentieth-century assessment of the nature of human being. A detailed glossary is included.
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Schoenberg'S Musical Imagination - Music In The Twentieth Century, 24

by Michael (University Of Minnesota) Cherlin

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 Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas. While most technical studies of Schoenberg's music are limited to a single compositional period, this book traces changes in his attitudes as a composer and their impact on his ever-changing compositional style over the course of his remarkable career.
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Experimental Music - Cage And Beyond

by Michael Nyman

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 Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.
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Ligeti, Kurtag, And Hungarian Music During The Cold War

by Rachel (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Beckles Willson

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 Drawing on key elements from musical thought in inter-war Hungary, this 2007 book provides a unique perspective on the nation's musical heritage during the Cold War. Although Ligeti became part of the Western avant-garde after he left Hungary in 1956, archival sources illuminate his ongoing contact with Hungarian musicians, and their shifting perspective on his work.
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Schoenberg'S Musical Imagination - Music In The Twentieth Century, 24

by Michael (University Of Minnesota) Cherlin

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 Schoenberg's Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg's music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas. While most technical studies of Schoenberg's music are limited to a single compositional period, this book traces changes in his attitudes as a composer and their impact on his ever-changing compositional style over the course of his remarkable career.
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The Music Of Louis Andriessen

by Yayoi Uno (Emory University, Atlanta) Everett

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 For much of his career, the internationally known and still active Dutch composer Louis Andriessen has been understood as an iconoclast who challenged the musical establishment. Containing over one hundred musical examples, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Andriessen's music, chronicling its evolution over the course of five decades.
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Schoenberg'S Transformation Of Musical Language - Music In The Twentieth Century, 22

by Ethan (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Haimo

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 One of the most influential composers of the twentieth century, Arnold Schoenberg's musical innovations still resonate today. Ethan Haimo challenges the popular notion that Schoenberg's atonal music made a revolutionary break with the past, arguing that his music instead transformed the past through a series of incremental changes.
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Edward Elgar, Modernist - Music In The Twentieth Century, 20

by J. P. E. (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Harper-Scott

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 The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book gives a historical overview of its place in European musical history. Harper-Scott argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a pessimistic twentieth-century assessment of the nature of human being. A detailed glossary is included.
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Britten'S Musical Language - Music In The Twentieth Century, 17

by Philip (Brooklyn College, City University Of New York) Rupprecht

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 Blending insights from linguistic and social theories of speech, ritual and narrative with music-analytic and historical criticism, Britten's Musical Language offers interesting perspectives on the composer's fusion of verbal and musical utterance in opera and song and provides close interpretative studies of the major scores.
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Music And Ideology In Cold War Europe - Music In The Twentieth Century, 18

by Mark (University Of Adelaide) Carroll

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 This book places the radicalization of art music in early post-war France in its broader socio-cultural and political context. It details the stances towards musical conservatism and innovation adopted by cultural strategists representing Western and Soviet ideological interests at the onset of the Cold War.
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The Music Of Conlon Nancarrow - Music In The Twentieth Century, 7

by Kyle Gann

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 Conlon Nancarrow has written the most rhythmically complex music the world has ever known, so complex that it can only be realized on a mechanical player piano. His music has achieved international fame only recently, and this book details his life and compositional achievements.
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The Music Of Harrison Birtwistle - Music In The Twentieth Century, 12

by Robert (University Of Nottingham) Adlington

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 This book provides a comprehensive view of Harrison Birtwistle's large and varied output. Structured around a number of broad themes - theatre, song, time and texture - the book discusses every work but avoids in-depth technical analysis, focusing instead upon the music's wider cultural significance.
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The Music And Thought Of Michael Tippett - Modern Times And Metaphysics

by David (University Of Newcastle Upon Tyne) Clarke

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 This multi-faceted study looks in detail at the music and thought of Michael Tippett. The book is made distinctive by its strong interdisciplinary element: it relates observations on the music to ideas in literature, philosophy and literary theory and addresses issues concerned with modernity and postmodernity.
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Polish Music Since Szymanowski - Music In The Twentieth Century, 19

by Adrian (Cardiff University) Thomas

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 Since 1937, Poland's music has been influenced by violent political upheavals - World War Two, Stalinism, the 'thaw', the election of the Polish Pope and the rise and fall of Solidarity. Issues of how artistic freedom was exercised and how composers reacted to these upheavals form the core of this study.
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The Music Of Toru Takemitsu - Music In The Twentieth Century, 14

by Peter Burt

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 Toru Takemitsu (1930â€"1996) was the best-known Japanese composer of his generation, bringing aspects of Eastern and Western traditions together. This is the first complete study of his work. It is also the first book in English to offer an in-depth analysis of his music.
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