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Classic essays on twentieth-century music : a continuing symposium / selected and annotated by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby ; assistant editor, Matthew Santa.

Contributor(s): Kostelanetz, Richard | Darby, Joseph | Santa, Matthew.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : London : Schirmer Books ; Prentice Hall International, c1996Description: x, 404 p. : music ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0028645812 (alk. paper); 9780028645810.Subject(s): Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Art music, orchestral & formal musicDDC classification: 780.904 KOS
Contents:
Introduction / Nicolas Slonimsky -- "New music" as historical category / Carl Dahlhaus -- The art of noise ; New acoustical pleasures / Luigi Russolo -- The composer in the Machine Age / George Gershwin -- The liberation of sound / Edgard Varèse -- The prospects of recording / Glenn Gould -- A history of electronic music pioneers / David Dunn -- The influence of peasant music on modern music / Béla Bartók -- Music and its future / Charles Ives -- The crisis in music / Hanns Eisler -- Why composers write how / Virgil Thomson -- The composer as specialist / Milton Babbitt -- The composer on his work : meditation on a twelve-tone horse / Luciano Berio -- And don't call them "lady" composers / Pauline Oliveros -- Prologue / Charles Ives -- On dissonant counterpoint / Charles Seeger -- Inauguration 1950-60 : Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage / Michael Nyman -- Experimental music / John Cage -- Problems and methods of notation / Kurt Stone -- Music and the soundscape / R. Murray Schafer -- Composition with twelve tones / Arnold Schoenberg -- Twelve-tone invariants as compositional determinants / Milton Babbitt -- The problem of opera / Alban Berg -- Picasso and Stravinsky / André Coeuroy -- Visible music / Dieter Schnebel -- Two ways of polyartistry / Richard Kostelanetz -- Minimalism in art and music : origins and aesthetics / H. Wiley Hitchcock -- Jazz / Gunther Schuller -- The jazz avant-garde / Amiri Baraka -- Towards an aesthetic of popular music / Simon Frith -- Plunderphonics / Chris Cutler.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A collection of essays on 20th-century classical music, primarily written by the composers and performers who made the music. Designed as introduction to 20th-century music, the editors draw on original writings from Charles Ives to Phillip Glass.

Includes bibliographical references, and index.

Introduction / Nicolas Slonimsky -- "New music" as historical category / Carl Dahlhaus -- The art of noise ; New acoustical pleasures / Luigi Russolo -- The composer in the Machine Age / George Gershwin -- The liberation of sound / Edgard Varèse -- The prospects of recording / Glenn Gould -- A history of electronic music pioneers / David Dunn -- The influence of peasant music on modern music / Béla Bartók -- Music and its future / Charles Ives -- The crisis in music / Hanns Eisler -- Why composers write how / Virgil Thomson -- The composer as specialist / Milton Babbitt -- The composer on his work : meditation on a twelve-tone horse / Luciano Berio -- And don't call them "lady" composers / Pauline Oliveros -- Prologue / Charles Ives -- On dissonant counterpoint / Charles Seeger -- Inauguration 1950-60 : Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage / Michael Nyman -- Experimental music / John Cage -- Problems and methods of notation / Kurt Stone -- Music and the soundscape / R. Murray Schafer -- Composition with twelve tones / Arnold Schoenberg -- Twelve-tone invariants as compositional determinants / Milton Babbitt -- The problem of opera / Alban Berg -- Picasso and Stravinsky / André Coeuroy -- Visible music / Dieter Schnebel -- Two ways of polyartistry / Richard Kostelanetz -- Minimalism in art and music : origins and aesthetics / H. Wiley Hitchcock -- Jazz / Gunther Schuller -- The jazz avant-garde / Amiri Baraka -- Towards an aesthetic of popular music / Simon Frith -- Plunderphonics / Chris Cutler.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Music in the Twentieth Century: Problems and Overviews
  • Machine Art, Electronic Art, and The Aesthetics of Technology
  • Perspectives on Composers and Modern Society Sound, Space, and Meaning
  • Twelve-Tone and Serial Composition Music Among the Arts
  • Jazz and Popular Music
  • Index