ABSTRACT

A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context is an integrated account of the genres and concepts of twentieth-century art music, organized topically according to aesthetic, stylistic, technical, and geographic categories, and set within the larger political, social, economic, and cultural framework. While the organization is topical, it is historical within that framework.

Musical issues interwoven with political, cultural, and social conditions have had a significant impact on the course of twentieth-century musical tendencies and styles. The goal of this book is to provide a theoretic-analytical basis that will appeal to those instructors who want to incorporate into student learning an analysis of the musical works that have reflected cultural influences on the major musical phenomena of the twentieth century. Focusing on the wide variety of theoretical issues spawned by twentieth-century music, A History of Twentieth-Century Music in a Theoretic-Analytical Context reflects the theoretical/analytical essence of musical structure and design.

 

part 1|300 pages

Music to the Late 1940s

chapter 1|11 pages

The Vienna of Freud

Toward Expressionism and the Transformation of Chromatic Tonality

chapter 2|20 pages

Vienna Schoenberg Circle

Expressionism and Free Atonality

chapter 10|19 pages

Rise of Neoclassicism in France

Cocteau–Satie Era and “Les Six”

chapter 11|13 pages

Stravinsky in Switzerland and Paris (1914–1939)

The Neoclassical Style

chapter 15|15 pages

Beyond the Second Viennese School

Early Developments of Twelve-Tone Serialism

part 2|189 pages

Music Since the Mid-1940s

chapter 16|13 pages

Total Serialization in Europe

chapter 18|16 pages

Twelve-Tone Tonality

chapter 19|22 pages

Musique Concrète and Electronic Music

chapter 23|15 pages

Latin-American Composers at Home and Abroad

Continuation and Synthesis of National Characteristics and Other Earlier Trends

chapter 24|25 pages

Synthesis of East and West in Eastern Asia