Twentieth-Century Music: A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America

by Morgan, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9780393952728
• ISBN10: 039395272X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Twentieth Century Music is the third volume to appear in this series. Morgan divides his text into three chronological sections. Beginning with such giants as Mahler, Richard Strauss and Debussy, he discusses national movements, as represented by Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams; philosophical movements as various as the Schoenberg/Berg/Webern alliance or "les six"; and the giants who were "sui generis," such as Bartok and Stravinsky. The "isms" such as serialism, minimalism, indeterminism, the new romanticism and pluralism, are clearly delineated and the electronic boom of the last decades is defined.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Nineteenth-Century Musical Background	p. 1
The Historical Context: Europe at the Turn of the Century	p. 11
Some Transitional Figures	p. 18
The Atonal Revolution	p. 62
New Tonalities	p. 89
Other European Currents	p. 111
Beyond the Continent	p. 128
Reconstruction and New Systems: between the Wars	p. 149
The Historical Context: Europe after World War I	p. 151
Neo-Classicism	p. 159
The Twelve-Tone System	p. 187
The Influence of Politics	p. 220
Other Europeans	p. 251
England after World War I	p. 270
The United States	p. 283
Latin America	p. 315
The Historical Context: the World after World War II	p. 325
Integral Serialism	p. 333
Indeterminacy	p. 359
Innovations in Form and Texture	p. 379
The New Pluralism	p. 407
A Return to Simplicity: Minimalism and the New Tonality	p. 423
Music and the External World	p. 441
Developments in Technology: Electronic Music	p. 461
Epilogue: Music Today	p. 481
Bibliography	p. 491
Index	p. 539
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