Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century

by Arnold Whittall

Overview

This new book builds on Whittall's Music since the First World War. It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of twentieth-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975, surveying the immense variety of technical developments in twentieth-century music. Sections of detailed analysis, with particular emphasis on such major figures as Stravinsky, Bartók, Messiaen, Tippett, and Ligeti, are framed by more concise sketches of a range of twentieth-century composers from Faur´ to Wolfgang Rihm. Extensive musical examples are employed throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198166849
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/11/2000
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

King's College, London

Table of Contents

1. Millennial Prelude2. Taking Steps: 1900-19183. Symphonic Music after 1918: I4. Opera5. Béla Bartók6. Igor Stravinsky: 1913-19517. Symphonic Music: II8. Arnold Schoenberg9. Alban Berg10. Anton Webern11. The Spread of Serialism12. Three Individualists13. Radicals and Rituals14. Musics of Change: Seven Europeans15. The Minimalist Experiment16. Laments and Consolations17. Polarities, Pluralities