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Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America (Norton Introduction to Music History)
TwentiethCentury Music A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America - Norton Introduction to Music History Author:Robert P. Morgan This book traces the diverse currents that have characterized art music in the 20th century beginning with Mahler, Richard Strauss, & Debussy; national movements as in the music of Charles Ives & Vaughan Williams; philosphical movements such as the music of Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, & Les Six; Bartok; Stravinsky; trends such as ... more »serialism, minimalism, indeterminism, the New Romanticism, & pluralism; and electronic music.
Includes numerous black & white illustrations, tables, musical notations, Preface, Introduction, Table of Contents, Bibliography, & Index. There are 23 chapters divided under the 3 major subjects of: Beyond Tonality: From 1900 to World War I; Reconstruction & New Systems: Between the Wars; and Innovation & Fragmentation: From World War II to the Present.« less