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Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for significant contributions to the field of contemporary music. The Rest is Noise is his first book.
Preface | p. xv |
Where to Listen | p. xix |
1900-1933 | |
The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle | p. 3 |
Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality | p. 36 |
Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz | p. 80 |
Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington | p. 130 |
Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius | p. 171 |
City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties | p. 194 |
1933-1945 | |
The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin's Russia | p. 235 |
Music for All: Music in FDR's America | p. 284 |
Death Fugue: Music in Hitler's Germany | p. 333 |
1945-2000 | |
Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music, 1945-1949 | p. 373 |
Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties | p. 386 |
"Grimes! Grimes!": The Passion of Benjamin Britten | p. 447 |
Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties | p. 483 |
Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists | p. 515 |
Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century's End | p. 558 |
Epilogue | p. 589 |
Notes | p. 593 |
Suggested Listening | p. 651 |
Acknowledgments | p. 653 |
Index | p. 657 |
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