Music of the Twentieth Century: Style and Structure

Contents

• Repertory. Introduction. PART ONE: STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLES AND COMPOSITIONAL MATERIALS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC.
• 1. Tonality in Transition.
• 2. Harmonic and Motivic Associations and the Emancipation of Dissonance".
• 3. Triadic Harmony, Diatonic Collections, and Tonality.
• 4. Serialism.
• 5. Rhythm and Meter.
• 6. Orchestration, Tone Color, and Texture. PART TWO: MUSIC FROM 1900 TO 1945.
• 7. Avant-Garde Composition in Germany and Austria.
• 8. Avant-Garde Composition in France and Russia.
• 9. Musical Nationalism.
• 10. Neoclassicism in France, Germany, and England.
• 11. Neoclassicism and Populism in American Music.
• 12. Experimental Music in America.
• PART 3 : MUSIC FROM 1945 TO THE PRESENT.
• 13. The Revival of the Avant-Garde.
• 14. Indeterminacy.
• 15. Electronic Music.
• 16. Ecleticism.
• 17. Recent Music in Europe and America. Index."