Concert Music of the Twentieth Century Its Personalities, Institutions, and Techniques

by Radice, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780130304667
• ISBN10: 0130304662
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-03
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Written from a multicultural perspective, this unique book traces the history of concert music from the early twentieth century to present day.This book explores the concert repertoires of Asian, Latin, and Eastern European countries. It examines how their politics, economics, and culture influence this genre of music. In addition, this book discusses women composers, composers of diverse sexual and political orientations, as well as Caucasian, male, Western-European and American composers.For the general reader interested in contemporary music and its history.

Author Biography

Mark A. Radice is a Professor of Music History and Literature at the Ithaca College School of Music. He is also the curator of the Karel Husa Archive and Gallery for Contemporary Music at Ithaca College. He has published numerous articles on a wide range of historical music subjects in journals that include Music Review and Musical Quarterly. In addition, he has published two books, Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini and Irvine's Writing about Music, Third Edition. He is currently editing a collection of essays devoted to the life and works of the contemporary composer Karel Husa.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vi
Acknowledgments	xi
Changing Styles of the Early Twentieth Century	1	(5)
National Musics	6	(27)
Central and Eastern Europe	7	(2)
Leos Janacek, 1854--1928	9	(1)
Zoltan Kodaly, 1882--1967	10	(2)
Bela Bartok, 1881--1945	12	(7)
Russia and the Soviet Union	19	(2)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873--1943	21	(3)
Sergei Prokofieff, 1891--1953	24	(2)
Music in the Socialist State: Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906--1975	26	(7)
A Wandering Interlude: Stravinsky, Part I	33	(3)
The Transformation of Late Romanticism in France	36	(7)
Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Impressionism	38	(5)
Music in Spain: Manuel de Falla, 1876--1946	43	(4)
Music in Latin America	47	(9)
Nadia Boulanger, 1887--1979	56	(5)
The Years of World War I: Stravinsky, Part II	61	(3)
An Italian Interlude: Music at the Time of Stravinsky's Visit	64	(10)
Back in France: Les Six	74	(5)
France Revisited, 1920--40: Stravinsky, Part III	79	(3)
La jeune France, Olivier Messiaen, and Homiletic Music	82	(17)
Three Students from Messiaen's Studio: Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, and Mikis Theodorakis	89	(10)
Germany, Austria, until the Fall of the Third Reich	99	(17)
Arnold Schonberg	100	(7)
Schonberg's Pupils: Alban Berg and Anton Webern	107	(6)
Music inside the Third Reich: Carl Orff, Wolfgang Fortner, and Hans Pfitzner	113	(3)
Music in Great Britain	116	(28)
Gustav Holst, 1874-1934	117	(3)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872--1958	120	(4)
Benjamin Britten, 1913--1976	124	(7)
Michael Tippett, 1905--1998	131	(5)
British Music since the Mid Century: The Manchester School	136	(8)
The Musical Maturity of the United States	144	(26)
Charles Edward Ives, 1874--1954	145	(6)
Serge Koussevitzky, 1874--1951	151	(8)
Aaron Copland, 1900-1990	159	(11)
The Move to America: Stravinsky, Part IV	170	(4)
Floods of Outcasts	174	(27)
Kurt Weill, 1900--1950	176	(4)
Paul Hindemith, 1895--1963	180	(6)
Karel Husa, b. 1921	186	(6)
Gyorgy Ligeti, b. 1923	192	(9)
Central and Eastern Europe since the Mid Twentieth Century	201	(17)
American Composers since the Mid Century	218	(24)
Leonard Bernstein, 1918--1990	218	(7)
The New Patronage: Campus Composers	225	(17)
The American Avant-garde: Henry Cowell and John Cage	242	(6)
John Cage	243	(5)
Electronic Music	248	(5)
Concert Music in Asia: Japan	253	(16)
Akira Ifukube, b. 1914	255	(1)
Teizo Matsumura, b. 1929	256	(1)
Toshiro Mayuzumi, b. 1929	257	(2)
Toru Takemitsu, 1930--1996	259	(4)
Toshi Ichiyanagi, b. 1933	263	(1)
Teruyuki Noda, b. 1940	264	(1)
Shin-Ichiro Ikebe, b. 1943	265	(4)
Concert Music in Asia: China	269	(15)
Minimalism	284	(15)
Terry Riley, b. 1935	285	(1)
Steve Reich and Philip Glass	286	(6)
John Adams, b. 1947	292	(7)
Index	299