Exploring twentieth-century music : tradition and innovation / Arnold Whittall.
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2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The work in the world
- Western orientations
- Progressiveness and place
- City life
- Place, personality and Sibelius
- Environmental sensibilities
- 2. Reflections, reactions
- Debussy in the mirror
- Webern's tribute to perfection
- Form and content: Webern's Op. 27/iii
- Canonic resonances
- 3. Rites of renewal and remembrance
- Janacek's conventions
- Janacek in context
- Bartok and tradition
- Bartok in 1939
- 4. Transcending the secular
- From classical to neoclassical
- Dithyramb
- Here and now, there and then
- 5. Overlapping opposites: Schoenberg observed
- Character
- Models
- Meanings
- Music, religion, politics
- 6. The subject of Britten
- Fulfilment, frustration
- Masking Dionysus
- The constraints of genre
- 7. Engagement or alienation?
- Between politics and art
- Marxism and after: Kagel
- Beethoven and after: Tippett and Shostakovich
- Judging Schnittke
- Affirmation, irony
- 8. Rites of transformation
- Words about harmony
- Aspects of the Requiem: Mozart, Wagner, Henze
- Wagner, Britten, Henze
- The German labyrinth
- 9. Modernism, lyricism
- Shadow and symmetry
- Perspectives on Carter
- Angles on Birtwistle
- 10. Experiment and orthodoxy
- Minimalism, modernism, classicism
- The Dionysian clockwork
- Ways, means, materials
- Mechanical and spiritual
- 11. Modernism in retreat?
- What kind of century?
- Theory, science, semiotics
- Resonance in space
- Echoes of voice
- Songs of ambivalence and experience
- A final focus.
