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Music of the Twentieth Century

Author : Ton de Leeuw
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053567658
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Music of the Twentieth Century written by Ton de Leeuw and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ton de Leeuw was a truly groundbreaking composer. As evidenced by his pioneering study of compositional methods that melded Eastern traditional music with Western musical theory, he had a profound understanding of the complex and often divisive history of twentieth-century music. Now his renowned chronicle Music of the Twentieth Century is offered here in a newly revised English-language edition. Music of the Twentieth Century goes beyond a historical survey with its lucid and impassioned discussion of the elements, structures, compositional principles, and terminologies of twentieth-century music. De Leeuw draws on his experience as a composer, teacher, and music scholar of non-European music traditions, including Indian, Indonesian, and Japanese music, to examine how musical innovations that developed during the twentieth century transformed musical theory, composition, and scholarly thought around the globe.

Twentieth-century Music

Author : Robert P. Morgan
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393952728
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Music written by Robert P. Morgan and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky

Music of the twentieth century

Author : Bryan R. Simms
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Music of the twentieth century written by Bryan R. Simms and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century music is explored from both a historical and a theoretical perspective in this enlightening text. Bryan R. Simms addresses style and structure with equal care as he chronicles the evolution of music from the time of Schoenberg to the work of such current composers as Schnittke and Gorecki. Throughout the book, Simms focuses on a number of influential compositions, examining 107 major works in depth as vivid representatives of music in our time.

American Music in the Twentieth Century

Author : Kyle Gann
Publisher : Schirmer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book American Music in the Twentieth Century written by Kyle Gann and published by Schirmer. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Music in the Twentieth Century surveys the art music written in the United States during the last 100 years from the groundbreaking experiments of Charles Ives to the present day. Writing for the general reader, Kyle Gann describes the characteristic sounds of the diverse movements that have sprung up in this eventful period, while at the same time he sketches the changing social and cultural contexts for American concert music, and provides concise biographies of key figures.

Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Western Music in Context: A Norton History)

Author : Joseph Auner
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393929201
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Western Music in Context: A Norton History) written by Joseph Auner and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Joseph Auner's Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries explores the sense of possibility unleashed by the era's destabilizing military conflicts, social upheavals, and technological advances. Auner shows how the multiplicity of musical styles has called into question traditional assumptions about compositional practice, the boundaries of music and noise, and the relationship among composer, performer, and listener. He also shows how composers and their works have played important roles in defining ideas of nation, race, and gender, and thus in shaping the modern world for better and worse. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense—as sounds notated, performed, and heard—focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

Author : Nicholas Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521662567
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music written by Nicholas Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Author : Hans-Joachim Braun
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801868856
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Music and Technology in the Twentieth Century written by Hans-Joachim Braun and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Braun (Universitat der Bundeswehr) presents 13 contributions by scholars in two fields of history--musicology and technology. Topics include the role of Yamaha in Japan's musical development, the social construction of the synthesizer, the player piano as a precursor of computer music, the musical role of airplanes and locomotives, the origins of the 45-RPM record, violin vibrato and the phonograph, Jimi Hendrix, the aesthetic challenge of sound sampling, and others. Originally published in 2000 as I Sing the Body Electric: Music and Technology in the 20th Century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Discover Classical Music of the 20th Century

Author : David McCleery
Publisher : Naxos Audio Books
ISBN 13 : 9781843792376
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Discover Classical Music of the 20th Century written by David McCleery and published by Naxos Audio Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free website with music available, to access see page 4.

Concert Music of the Twentieth Century

Author : Mark A. Radice
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Concert Music of the Twentieth Century written by Mark A. Radice and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2003 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concert Music of the Twentieth Century is about "concert music"--music for contemplation rather than for atmosphere. The repertoire discussed in these pages was written by composers with something important to say and with skills to do so. Many of the works discussed tie in with a long-standing, Western European tradition of art music, but an equal voice is given to culturally and ethnically diverse composers active during the past several decades. Radice provides data about the pieces, the composers who wrote them, and the contexts in which they originated. Our understanding and evaluation of music is a dynamic process and one that is subject to change. Music only has meaning within its social contexts, and these are expanding daily. Many non-Western nations have long-standing musical traditions and practices that have entered into the Western mainstream just as Western practices and traditions have influenced the musical cultures of the world to produce new and exciting possibilities for music making. Diversity has been a key element in the selection of topics for discussion, and the examples included here can serve as gateways for other investigations by interested readers. This book is a survey presenting a broad array of representative works. The personalities explored include composers, performers, theorists, teachers, and organizations. In many cases, the information comes directly from composers whom the author has interviewed. The discussions in this book demonstrate that the world of contemporary music is a fascinating one that offers rich rewards to those interested in understanding the vibrant dynamics of concert music.

Twentieth-Century Chamber Music

Author : James McCalla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135887063
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Chamber Music written by James McCalla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth Century Chamber Music combines a chronological overview of 20th-century chamber music and the major composers in the style, with information on a wide selection of chamber works.

Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

Author : Eduardo de la Fuente
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136927433
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity written by Eduardo de la Fuente and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the ‘sacred’ in music, are explored in this book for what they tell us about the condition of modernity. Modernity is here treated as a complex social and cultural formation, in which mythology, narrative, and the desire for ‘re-enchantment’ have not completely disappeared. Through an analysis of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Cage, 'the author shows that the twentieth century composer often adopted an artistic personality akin to Max Weber’s religious types of the prophet and priest, ascetic and mystic. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity advances a cultural sociology of modernity and shows that twentieth century musical culture often involved the adoption of ‘apocalyptic’ temporal narratives, a commitment to ‘musical revolution’, a desire to explore the limits of noise and sound, and, finally, redemption through the rediscovery of tonality. This book is essential reading for those interested in cultural sociology, sociological theory, music history, and modernity/modernism studies.

Music in the 20th Century

Author : William W. Austin
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393333893
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Music in the 20th Century written by William W. Austin and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1966-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the principal aims of this vast panorama of musical composition in the twentieth century is to arouse in the reader a thirst for contemporary music and to share with him the author's knowledge of and enthusiasm for the many masterworks in different styles that our century has already produced. The emphasis is on the development of the various styles to be found in the music of our time.

Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198166832
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century written by Arnold Whittall and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1999 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century builds on the foundations of Music since the First World War (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975. The focus is on matters of compositional technique, with sections of detailed analytical comment framed by more concise sketches of a range of twentieth-century composers from Faure to Wolfgang Rihm.Extensive music examples reinforce this technical focus. Though in no sense a history of music concerned primarily with the institutional and critical climate within which composers live and work, nor an encyclopedia dealing with every significant composer, Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century offers a critical engagement with that confrontation between tradition and innovation to which twentieth-century composers have responded with resourcefulness and vitality.

Choral Music in the Twentieth Century

Author : Nick Strimple
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671223
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century written by Nick Strimple and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical works for chorus are among the great masterpieces of 20th-century art. This guide, the first truly comprehensive volume on the choral music of the last century, covers the spectacular range of music for vocal ensembles, from Saint-Saens to Tan Dun. The book will be essential to every choral conductor and a valuable resource for choir members, choral societies and choruses.

Aspects of Twentieth-century Music

Author : Richard DeLone
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Twentieth-century Music written by Richard DeLone and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century has seen a revolution in art music, with the great variety of conceptually opposed musical developments existing side by side. This book presents a study of this century's music from the point of view of its structure, without addressing collective styles, the mechanisms or techniques for sound manipulation, or the literature of the period. Rather, the essays in this book address questions of how form, timbre and texture, rhythm, line, chord, and ordering procedures are dealt with by twentieth-century composers in a wide variety of musical works from early to very recent examples.

Twentieth-century Music Theory and Practice

Author : Edward Pearsall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415888956
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Music Theory and Practice written by Edward Pearsall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres. It includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. Recent developments involving atonal voice leading, K-nets, nonlinearity, and neo-Reimannian transformations are also engaged. While many of the theoretical tools for analyzing twentieth century music have been devised to analyze atonal music, they may also provide insight into a much broader array of styles. This text capitalizes on this idea by using the theoretical devices associated with atonality to explore music inclusive of a large number of schools and contains examples by such stylistically diverse composers as Paul Hindemith, George Crumb, Ellen Taffe Zwilich, Steve Reich, Michael Torke, Philip Glass, Alexander Scriabin, Ernest Bloch, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, György Ligeti, and Leonard Bernstein. This textbook also provides a number of analytical, compositional, and written exercises. The aural skills supplement and online aural skills trainer on the companion website allow students to use theoretical concepts as the foundation for analytical listening. Access additional resources and online material here: http: //www.twentiethcenturymusictheoryandpractice.net and https: //www.motivichearing.com/.

Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century

Author : Lol Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135929467
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century written by Lol Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century is an alphabetically arranged encyclopedia of all aspects of music in various parts of the world during the 20th century. It covers the major musical styles--concert music, jazz, pop, rock, etc., and such key genres as opera, orchestral music, be-bop, blues, country, etc. Articles on individuals provide biographical information on their life and works, and explore the contribution each has made in the field. Illustrated and fully cross-referenced, the Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century also provides Suggested Listening and Further Reading information. A good first point of reference for students, librarians, and music scholars--as well as for the general reader.