Exploring twentieth-century music : tradition and innovation / Arnold Whittall.

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Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Main Author:
Whittall, Arnold
Subjects:
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Format: Book
Exploring twentieth-century music : tradition and innovation /

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300 |a xi, 238 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 26 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and indexes. 
505 0 0 |g 1.  |t The work in the world --  |t Western orientations --  |t Progressiveness and place --  |t City life --  |t Place, personality and Sibelius --  |t Environmental sensibilities --  |g 2.  |t Reflections, reactions --  |t Debussy in the mirror --  |t Webern's tribute to perfection --  |t Form and content: Webern's Op. 27/iii --  |t Canonic resonances --  |g 3.  |t Rites of renewal and remembrance --  |t Janacek's conventions --  |t Janacek in context --  |t Bartok and tradition --  |t Bartok in 1939 --  |g 4.  |t Transcending the secular --  |t From classical to neoclassical --  |t Dithyramb --  |t Here and now, there and then --  |g 5.  |t Overlapping opposites: Schoenberg observed --  |t Character --  |t Models --  |t Meanings --  |t Music, religion, politics --  |g 6.  |t The subject of Britten --  |t Fulfilment, frustration --  |t Masking Dionysus --  |t The constraints of genre --  |g 7.  |t Engagement or alienation? --  |t Between politics and art --  |t Marxism and after: Kagel --  |t Beethoven and after: Tippett and Shostakovich --  |t Judging Schnittke --  |t Affirmation, irony --  |g 8.  |t Rites of transformation --  |t Words about harmony --  |t Aspects of the Requiem: Mozart, Wagner, Henze --  |t Wagner, Britten, Henze --  |t The German labyrinth --  |g 9.  |t Modernism, lyricism --  |t Shadow and symmetry --  |t Perspectives on Carter --  |t Angles on Birtwistle --  |g 10.  |t Experiment and orthodoxy --  |t Minimalism, modernism, classicism --  |t The Dionysian clockwork --  |t Ways, means, materials --  |t Mechanical and spiritual --  |g 11.  |t Modernism in retreat? --  |t What kind of century? --  |t Theory, science, semiotics --  |t Resonance in space --  |t Echoes of voice --  |t Songs of ambivalence and experience --  |t A final focus. 
650 0 |a Music  |y 20th century  |x History and criticism. 
991 |a 2005-07-14 
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