Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Romantic Oratorio from Haydn to Elgar
- a. English Oratorio after Handel
- b. Oratorio Volgare-Italy and Austria
- c. Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
- 1. Die Schopfung (The Creation)
- 2. Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons)
- d. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- 1. Paulus (1836)
- 2. Elijah, op. 70
- e. Beethoven and Berlioz
- f. Robert Schumann-Das Paradies und die Peri, op. 50
- g. Franz Liszt-Die Legende der Heiligen Elisabeth
- h. Oratorio in Nineteenth-Century England
- i. Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
- 1. Dream of Gerontius-Text
- 2. Dream of Gerontius-Music
- j. Conclusion
- k. End Notes
- 2. Part Song in Nineteenth-Century Germany and England
- a. Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- b. Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- c. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- d. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- e. Other German Part Song Composers
- f. Part Song in England
- g. Rise of the Musical Competition
- h. Conclusion
- i. End Notes
- 3. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century Drama
- a. Choral Music in Nineteenth-Century Opera
- b. Opera in Italy and Germany-Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner
- c. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Dramatic Choral Music
- 1. Hector Berlioz: Le Damnation de Faust
- 2. Felix Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, op. 60
- 3. Robert Schumann: Faustszenen, WoO. 3
- 4. Johannes Brahms
- e. Conclusion
- f. End Notes
- 4. Choral Symphony from Beethoven to Berio
- a. Ludwig van Beethoven-Symphony No. 9 in d minor, op. 125
- b. Felix Mendelssohn-Symphony No. 2 in B-flat, op. 52 (Lobgesang)
- c. Hector Berlioz-Romeo et Juliette, op. 17
- d. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1739-1832)
- e. Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
- f. The Choral Symphony after Mahler
- g. Gustav Holst-First Choral Symphony, op. 41
- h. Benjamin Britten-Spring Symphony, op. 44
- i. Shostakovich, Bernstein and Berio
- j. Conclusion
- k. End Notes
- 5. The Twentieth-Century Revolution: French Choral Music from
- Debussy to Messiaen
- a. Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- b. Debussy's Predecessors
- c. Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
- d. The Rise of the Avant-Garde-Les Six
- 1. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
- 2. Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
- f. Maurice Durufle (1902-1986)
- g. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1991)
- Cinq Rechants
- h. Conclusion
- i. End Notes
- 6. Tonal oder Atonal: Pitch Serialism in the Choral Music of Schoenberg,
- Webern, and their Followers
- a. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
- b. Anton von Webern (1883-1945)
- c. Beyond the Second Viennese School
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- d. Other Dodecaphonic Composers
- e. Conclusion
- f. End Notes
- 7. Nationalism, Folksong and Identity
- a. England
- b. Hungary
- 1. Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967)
- 1. Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
- 2. Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
- c. Russia
- d. Stravinsky-Les Noces
- e. Nationalism under the Soviet Regime
- f. Veljo Tormis (b. 1930)
- g. Conclusion
- h. End Notes
- 8. Neo-Classicism: The Revival of Historical Models in the Works
- of Stravinsky, Hindemith and Others
- a. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- b. Paul Hindemith (1899-1963)
- c. German Church Music in the Twentieth Century
- e. Conclusion
- f. End Notes
- 9. After Messiaen: The Avant-Garde Aesthetic in Choral Music
- a. Boulez and Cage
- b. Karl-Heinz Stockhausen (1928-2008)
- c. Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926)
- d. Bruno Maderna and Luigi Nono
- e. Luciano Berio (1925-2000)
- f. Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
- g. Gyorgi Ligeti (1923-2006)
- h. Mauricio Kagel and Heinz Holliger
- i. Other Modernist Choral Composers
- j. Modernism-Practical Applications
- k. Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
- l. Conclusion
- m. End Notes
- 10. European Centrism
- a. Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)
- b. Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)
- c. Czech Republic
- d. Hungary
- e. Poland
- f. Switzerland
- g. Frank Martin (1891-1974)
- h. Scandinavian Choral Music
- 1. Sweden
- 2. Norway
- 3. Finland
- i. Modern Scandinavian Composers
- 1. Sweden
- 2. Norway
- 3. Finland
- 4. Denmark
- j. Conclusion
- k. End Notes
- 11. The American Experience
- a. The Second New England School
- b. Charles Ives (1874-1954)
- c. Aaron Copland (1900-1991)
- d. Randall Thompson (1899-1984)
- e. Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- f. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
- g. Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
- h. Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
- i. Ned Rorem (b. 1923)
- j. Conclusion
- k. End Notes
- 12. The British Isles
- a. Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
- b. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- c. William Walton and Michael Tippett
- d. Kenneth Leighton (1922-1988)
- e. Peter Maxwell-Davies (b. 1934)
- f. John Tavener (b. 1944)
- g. James Macmillan (b. 1959)
- h. Conclusion
- i. End Notes
- 13. A New Simplicity: Aleatoric and Minimalist
- Procedures in Choral Music
- a. Witold Lutos?awski (1913-1994)
- b. Krzyzstof Penderecki (b. 1933)
- c. Arvo Part (b. 1935)
- d. Minimalism
- e. Conclusion
- f. End Notes
- Bibliography
- Index