A History of Western Choral Music, Volume 2

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