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Twentieth-century music : an introduction / Eric Salzman.

By: Salzman, Eric [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Prentice-Hall history of music series: Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1974]Copyright date: ©1974Edition: Second edition.Description: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0139350071 (paperback) .Subject(s): Music -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.904
Contents:
Part one: Twentieth-century music and the past -- Part two: The breakdown of traditional tonality. The sources -- The revolution: Paris --The revolution: Vienna --Part three: The new tonalities -- Stravinsky and neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality in France -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality oustide of France --National syles -- Musical theater -- Part 4: Atonality and twelve-tone music -- The Viennese school -- The diffusion of twelve-tone music -- Part 5: The avante-garde -- Introduction: before World War II -- Technological culture and electronic music -- Ultra-rationality and serialism -- Anti-rationality and aleatory -- The new performed music: the United States -- Post-serialism: the new performance practice in Europe -- Beyond modern music.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.904 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00168752
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Twentieth-century music and the past -- Part two: The breakdown of traditional tonality. The sources -- The revolution: Paris --The revolution: Vienna --Part three: The new tonalities -- Stravinsky and neo-classicism -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality in France -- Neo-classicism and neo-tonality oustide of France --National syles -- Musical theater -- Part 4: Atonality and twelve-tone music -- The Viennese school -- The diffusion of twelve-tone music -- Part 5: The avante-garde -- Introduction: before World War II -- Technological culture and electronic music -- Ultra-rationality and serialism -- Anti-rationality and aleatory -- The new performed music: the United States -- Post-serialism: the new performance practice in Europe -- Beyond modern music.