New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2013.
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Part of the series Western music in context : a Norton history;Western music in context.
Notes:

• Companion volume to the book Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by Joseph Auner. May also be used on its own.
• Vocal selections in English, German or Latin.
• Each selection followed by its text, when present, with English translation, and an analysis written by Auner.
• Includes three appendices: on reading an orchestral score instrument names and abbreviations and note names in English, French, German, and Italian and a glossary of stylistic terms.
• Symphony no. 3 in D minor. Movement 4 / Gustav Mahler — Estampes. Pagodes / Claude Debussy — Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21. Mondestrunken / Arnold Schoenberg — Wozzeck. Act 3. Transition and Scene 3 / Alban Berg — Symphony no. 1. Movement 1 / Charles Ives — Le sacre du printemps. Part 1. Introduction / Igor Stravinsky — Der Lindberghflug. Introduction of the pilot / Kurt Weill — Symphony de psaumes. Movement 2 / Igor Stravinsky — Concerto in G for piano and orchestra. Movement 1 / Maurice Ravel — Piano piece, op. 33a / Arnold Schoenberg — Symphony, op. 21. Movement 2, Variations / Anton Webern — Music for strings, percussion, and celesta. Movement 1 / Béla Bartók — Billy the Kid suite. Street in a frontier town (excerpt) / Aaron Copland — Africa. Part 2, Land of romance / William Grant Still — War Requiem, op. 66. Requiem aeternam / Benjamin Britten — String quartet no. 8, op. 110. Movement 3 / Dmitri Shostakovich — Le marteau sans maître. Movement 5, Bel édifice et les pressentiments / Pierre Boulez — Traveling companions / Pauline Oliveros — Synchronisms no. 6 (excerpt) / Mario Davidovsky — NoaNoa / Kaija Saariaho — Continuum / György Ligeti — String quartet no. 5. Introduction, Giocoso, Interlude I, Lento espressivo / Elliott Carter — Vox balaenae. Vocalise– for the beginning of time / George Crumb — Ba ban / Chen Yi — Violin phase (excerpt) / Steve Reich — Doctor Atomic. Act 1. Scene 3, Batter my heart / John Adams.

Subjects:

• Musical analysis — Music collections.
• Music — 20th century — History and criticism.
• Music — 21st century — History and criticism.

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