A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context

Contents

• Part 1 : Music to the Late 1940s
• 1. The Vienna of Freud: Toward Expressionism and the transformation of chromatic tonality
• 2. Vienna Schoenberg circle: Expressionism and free atonality
• 3. Schoenberg's music societies, World War I, and evolution of the twelve-tone method
• 4. Musical reactions to the ultrachromaticism of the Wagner-Strauss period: Rise of national styles
• 5. Toward synthesis of divergent folk- and art-music sources in Eastern Europe
• 6. Cultural identity and cosmopolitan developments in European music
• 7. New musical sources and aesthetics in the United States
• 8. Search for cultural identity in Latin America
• 9. Rise of neoclassicism in France: The Cocteau-Satie era and "Les Six"
• 10. Stravinsky in Switzerland and Paris (1914-1939): The neoclassical style
• 11. Neotonality and Gebrauchsmusik in Germany
• 12. The music of Soviet composers
• 13. Color, noise, and new sonorities
• 14. Early developments of the twelve-tone system beyond Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern
• Part 2 : Music Since the Mid 1940s
• 15. Total serialization in Europe
• 16. Varied approaches to the twelve-tone principle and rhythmic formulization in the United States
• 17. Twelve-tone tonality
• 18. Musique concrete and electronic music
• 19. Aleatory-Chance, improvisation, open form-and Minimalist Music
• 20. Synthesis of national and other earlier trends in Europe
• 21. Synthesis of national and other earlier trends in the United States
• 22. Latin American Composers at home and abroad: Synthesis of national and other earlier trends
• 23. Synthesis of East and West in Eastern Asia