Twelve-Tone Music in America

Contents

• Introduction;
• Part I . Thirty-Seven Ways to Write a Twelve-Tone Serial Piece:
• 1. 'Ultra-modern' composers;
• 2. European immigrants;
• 3. Postwar pioneers;
• 4. An older generation (composers born before 1920);
• 5. Some serial neoclassicists, tonalists, jazzers, and minimalists;
• 6. A middle generation (composers born 1920-40);
• 7. A younger generation (composers born after 1940);
• Part II . American Twelve-Tone Serialism in Context:
• 8. The composition of twelve-tone music in America;
• 9. The history of twelve-tone music in America;
• 10. The reception of twelve-tone music in America;
• 11. Conclusion.