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Source readings in music history. Vol. 7, The twentieth century / Oliver Strunk, editor ; edited by Robert P. Morgan.

Contributor(s): Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver), 1901-1980 [editor] | Morgan, Robert P [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Edition: Revised edition.Description: xiii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 039396700X (paperback); 9780393967005 (paperback).Subject(s): Music -- History and criticism -- SourcesDDC classification: 780.904
Contents:
I Esthetic positions: Arnold Schoenber, Two letters to Ferruccio Busoni -- Jean Cocteau, from "Cock and Harlequin" -- Igor Stravinsky, from Poetics of music -- John Cage, "Experimental music" -- Milton Babbitt, "Who cares if you listen?" -- Evan Ziporyn, "Who listen if you care?" -- II Expanded sonic resources: Ferruccio Busoni, from Sketch of a new esthetic of music -- Luigi Russolo, The art of noises -- Charles Ives, "Music and its future" -- Edgard Varèse, "The liberation of sound" -- Pierre Boulez, "Tendencies in recent music" -- III Compositional approaches: Arnold Schoenberg, from "Composition with twelve tones" -- Karlheinz Stockhausen, from "The concept of unity in electronic music" -- Iannis Xenakis, "Free stochastic music" -- Györgi Ligeti, from "Metamorphoses of musical form" -- Steve Reich, from Writings about music --IV Music, society, politics: Kurt Weill, "Shifts in musical production" -- Joseph Goebbels, Speech from the Düsseldorf music festival -- Pradva, "Chaos instead of music" -- Sergey Prokofiev, Three commentaries -- Dmitri Shostakovich, from Testimony -- Marian Anderson, from My Lord, what a morning --Cornelius Cardew, from "A scratch orchestra: draft constitution" -- Ethel Smyth, from Streaks of life -- Eva Rieger, " I recycle sounds': do women compose differently?" -- William Grant Still, from "Horizons unlimited" -- Olly Wilsonm " The black American composer" -- V Extending western music's boundaries: Claude Debussy, Three articles for music journals-- Béla Bartók, from Two articles on the influence of folk music -- Darius Milhaud, from Notes without music -- Wanda Landowska, "The return to the music of the past" -- Harry Partch, "Pattern of music" -- Bruno Nettl, from "Mozart and the Ethnomusicological study of western culture" -- VI Concert life, reception, and the culture industry: Alban Berg, from "Society for private music performances in Vienna" -- Theodor W. Adorno, from "A social critique of radio music" -- Lawrence Gilman, from Intermission talk for Toscanini's final radio concert -- Roland Barthes, "Musica practica" -- Steven Connor, from Postmodernist culture -- VII Pluralism: Erik Satie, from "Memoirs of an Amnesiac" -- Nadia Boulanger, from Two interviews -- Constant Lambert, from Music ho! -- Leonard B. Meyer, from Music, the arts, and ideas -- Umberto Eco, from "The poetic of the open work" -- George Rochberg, from "On the third string quartet" -- Carl Dahlhaus, "Music - or musics?".
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Twentieth-century music has been described as complex, vital, diverse, uncertain, experimental, self-conscious, innovative-the list is long and growing. Composers have been both credited with and accused of always searching for something "new," writing works that are mechanistic but romantic, meaningful but unskilled, beautiful but ugly! In The Twentieth Century, Robert P. Morgan helps us grasp the flavor of the era by presenting forty-five readings from the period, nearly all written by active participants in the musical developments of the time. Thus we tune in to the voices of some thirty composers-from Busoni to Babbitt, Ives to Xenakis, Satie to Stravinsky-and learn from performers Anderson and Landowska, philosopher-critics Adorno, Dahlhaus, and Meyer, and writers Cocteau, Barthes, and Eco.

Includes index.

I Esthetic positions: Arnold Schoenber, Two letters to Ferruccio Busoni -- Jean Cocteau, from "Cock and Harlequin" -- Igor Stravinsky, from Poetics of music -- John Cage, "Experimental music" -- Milton Babbitt, "Who cares if you listen?" -- Evan Ziporyn, "Who listen if you care?" -- II Expanded sonic resources: Ferruccio Busoni, from Sketch of a new esthetic of music -- Luigi Russolo, The art of noises -- Charles Ives, "Music and its future" -- Edgard Varèse, "The liberation of sound" -- Pierre Boulez, "Tendencies in recent music" -- III Compositional approaches: Arnold Schoenberg, from "Composition with twelve tones" -- Karlheinz Stockhausen, from "The concept of unity in electronic music" -- Iannis Xenakis, "Free stochastic music" -- Györgi Ligeti, from "Metamorphoses of musical form" -- Steve Reich, from Writings about music --IV Music, society, politics: Kurt Weill, "Shifts in musical production" -- Joseph Goebbels, Speech from the Düsseldorf music festival -- Pradva, "Chaos instead of music" -- Sergey Prokofiev, Three commentaries -- Dmitri Shostakovich, from Testimony -- Marian Anderson, from My Lord, what a morning --Cornelius Cardew, from "A scratch orchestra: draft constitution" -- Ethel Smyth, from Streaks of life -- Eva Rieger, " I recycle sounds': do women compose differently?" -- William Grant Still, from "Horizons unlimited" -- Olly Wilsonm " The black American composer" -- V Extending western music's boundaries: Claude Debussy, Three articles for music journals-- Béla Bartók, from Two articles on the influence of folk music -- Darius Milhaud, from Notes without music -- Wanda Landowska, "The return to the music of the past" -- Harry Partch, "Pattern of music" -- Bruno Nettl, from "Mozart and the Ethnomusicological study of western culture" -- VI Concert life, reception, and the culture industry: Alban Berg, from "Society for private music performances in Vienna" -- Theodor W. Adorno, from "A social critique of radio music" -- Lawrence Gilman, from Intermission talk for Toscanini's final radio concert -- Roland Barthes, "Musica practica" -- Steven Connor, from Postmodernist culture -- VII Pluralism: Erik Satie, from "Memoirs of an Amnesiac" -- Nadia Boulanger, from Two interviews -- Constant Lambert, from Music ho! -- Leonard B. Meyer, from Music, the arts, and ideas -- Umberto Eco, from "The poetic of the open work" -- George Rochberg, from "On the third string quartet" -- Carl Dahlhaus, "Music - or musics?".