Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Joseph Auner.

Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-
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Part of the series Western music in context: a Norton history;Western music in context.
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Anthology repertoire — Series editor’s preface — Author’s preface — A sense of possibility : Tangled chaos and the blank page Modern, modernism, modernity Becoming a possibilist New possibilities and perspectives For further reading — Part I: From the turn of the twentieth century through World War I : Expanding musical worlds : New inner and outer landscapes Modernism, modernity, and systems of happiness and balance Gustav Mahler and the symphony as world Alma Mahler and the new woman Debussy, symbolism, exoticism, and the century of aeroplanes For further reading — Making new musical languages : Atonality, post-tonality, and the emancipation of the dissonance Busoni’s new aesthetic of music Futurism and the art of noises Strauss and referential tonality Skryabin’s new harmonic structures Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern For further reading — Folk sources, the primitive, and the search for authenticity : Locating the folk Sibelius: creating Finnishness Ives’s America Primitivism and the folk Bartók and the search for a mother tongue Stravinsky, Russianness, and the folk estranged For further reading — Part II: The interwar years : New music taking flight : Europe and America after the War Radio, recording, and the film Music for use New instruments, the sounds of the city, and machine art Jazz, race, and the new music For further reading — Paris, neoclassicism, and the art of the everyday : Neoclassicism Musical high life and low life Music and cultural politics Antiquity and ritual Eighteenth-century sources Tonality defamiliarized The art of the everyday Jazz and the primitive For further reading — The search for order and balance : Cultural politics of the search for order The twelve-tone method New approaches to rhythm, texture, and form New tonalities For further reading — Inventing traditions : Villa-Lobos and Brasilidade Vaughan Williams and Englishness The borders of American music Copland and the Ameri

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