Exploring Twentieth-Century Music
Tradition and Innovation
- Author: Whittall, Arnold
One might ask if this book, closely following Whitalls Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century (1999), is sufficiently different to merit consideration. The answer is an emphatic yes....... — More…
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Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The work in the world
- 2. Reflections, reactions
- 3. Rites of renewal and remembrance
- 4. Transcending the secular
- 5. Overlapping opposites: Schoenberg observed
- 6. The subject of Britten
- 7. Engagement or alienation?
- 8. Rites of transformation
- 9. Modernism, lyricism
- 10. Experiment and orthodoxy
- 11. Modernism in retreat?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.