Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation

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Cambridge University Press, 27. velj 2003. - Broj stranica: 238
In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall explores the music of 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 musical to explore the contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. In particular he demonstrates the continuum between the progressive and the conservative which can be shown to underpin the huge variety of styles and musical genres found in twentieth-century composition.
 

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The work in the world
xi
Progressiveness and place
1
City life
4
Place personality and Sibelius
6
Environmental sensibilities
10
Reflections reactions
13
Weberns tribute to perfection
19
Weberns Op 27iii
23
Tippett and Shostakovich
115
Judging Schnittke
119
Affirmation irony
122
Rites of transformation
125
Mozart Wagner Henze
128
Wagner Britten Henze
136
The German labyrinth
140
Modernism lyricism
143

Canonic resonances
28
Rites of renewal and remembrance
32
Janacek in context
38
Bartok and tradition
45
Bartok in 1939
47
Transcending the secular
53
Dithyramb
60
Here and now there and then
63
Overlapping opposites Schoenberg observed
71
Models
73
Meanings
78
Music religion politics
82
The subject of Britten
87
Masking Dionysus
94
The constraints of genre
101
Engagement or alienation?
106
Kagel
111
Perspectives on Carter
148
Angles on Birtwistle
155
Experiment and orthodoxy
165
The Dionysian clockwork
167
Ways means materials
174
Mechanical and spiritual
177
Modernism in retreat?
184
Theory science semiotics
186
Resonance in space
189
Echoes of voice
195
Songs of ambivalence and experience
197
A final focus
202
Notes
206
Bibliography
221
Index
231
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Arnold Whittall is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory and Analysis at King's College London and he has written widely on twentieth-century music. His recent publications include The Music of Britten and Tippett (1990) and Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century (1999).

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