Exploring Twentieth-Century Music
Tradition and Innovation
- Author: Arnold Whittall, King's College London
- Date Published: February 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521016681
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In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century.
Read more- Surveys all major twentieth-century trends
- A blend of the musical and the cultural
- Written by one of the most authoritative figures in the field of twentieth-century music
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- Date Published: February 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521016681
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 174 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.505kg
- contains: 39 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The work in the world
2. Reflections, reactions
3. Rites of renewal and remembrance
4. Transcending the secular
5. Overlapping opposites: Schoenberg observed
6. The subject of Britten
7. Engagement or alienation?
8. Rites of transformation
9. Modernism, lyricism
10. Experiment and orthodoxy
11. Modernism in retreat?
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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