The modern age, 1890-1960 / edited by Martin Cooper.
| Author/creator | Cooper, Martin |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1974. |
| Description | xix, 764 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | New Oxford history of music ; v. 10 New Oxford history of music ; v. 10. ^A159522 |
| Contents | The apogee and decline of Romanticism: 1890-1914 / by Gerald Abraham. Introduction ; Central Europe ; France ; Spain and Italy ; Russia and Poland ; Scandinavia ; Britain and the United States ; The musical language of late Romanticism ; The textures of late Romanticism ; Problems of structure ; End of an epoch -- The reaction against Romanticism: 1890-1914 / by Gerald Abraham. Introduction ; The impact of Bach ; Busoni and Reger ; Non-functional harmony ; The evolution of Debussy's style ; Debussy and Ravel ; The wider influence of Debussy ; The new harmony in new contexts ; Schoenberg -- Stage works: 1890-1918 / by Martin Cooper. Central Europe ; Italy and the New Realism ; The musical language of verismo ; France and the reaction against Realism ; Russia and the Slavonic periphery ; Bohemia ; After verismo: Art nouveau and the Classical reaction ; Towards new shores ; Ballet ; Symbolist drama -- Music in the mainland of Europe: 1918-1939 / by Mosco Carner. General characteristics ; Stravinsky after the Rite ; Stravinsky's neo-classicism ; The 'Symphony of Psalms' and later works ; Sergey Prokofyev [Prokofiev] ; The older generation in France ; Erik Satie and 'Les Six' ; 'La Jeune France' ; Italy: La generazione dell'80 ; Ottorini Respighi, Giorgio Ghedini, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ; Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi ; Béla Bartók ; Zoltan Kodály ; Leos Janacek ; Other Czech composers ; Karol Szymanowski ; Manuel de Falla ; Esplà and Turina ; Later Spanish composers ; Switzerland ; Scandinavia and Holland ; Richard Strauss's last years ; Pfitzner and Schreker ; Ferrucio Busoni ; Paul Hindemith ; Kurt Weill and Ernst Křenek ; The second Viennese school: Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg and Anton Webern -- Music of the European mainstream: 1940-1960 / by Peter Evans. Igor Stravinsky and the Rapprochement ; Paul Hindemith and the German middle generation ; The middle generation elsewhere ; Olivier Messiaen ; The new serialism ; Pierre Boulez ; Karlheinz Stockhausen ; The avant-garde in Italy and elsewhere ; Music on tape ; Conservatism and compromise -- Music in Britain: 1918-1960 / by Arthur Hutchings. Introduction ; Bax and his Romantic contemporaries ; Ralph Vaughan Williams ; Gustav Holst ; Peter Warlock and his contemporaries ; Alan Bush ; Constant Lambert and William Walton ; Edmund Rubbra ; Lennox Berkeley ; Alan Rawsthorne ; Gerald Finzi ; Michael Tippett ; Benjamin Britten ; Elisabeth Lutyens ; Immigrant composers ; Humphrey Searle ; The younger generation -- American music: 1918-1960. Music in the United States / by Richard Franko Goldman. The background ; Charles Ives ; The decade 1920-30: Gershwin and Copland ; Radicals of the 1920s ; Henry Cowell ; Virgil Thomson and others ; International styles: Wallingford Riegger, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston ; Roy Harris ; The 1930s: the impact of European immigrants ; The situation in 1950: the decade 1950-60 -- Music in Latin America / by Gerard Béhague. Nationalism ; Modernism and the avant-garde -- Music in the Soviet Union / by Gerald Abraham. The political background ; The beginnings of Soviet opera and ballet ; Early Soviet orchestral music ; Early Soviet music in other fields ; Socialist Realism in opera ; Socialist Realism in the concert hall ; Prokofyev's War and Peace ; Instrumental music, 1941-7 ; Vocal music, 1941-7 ; Political background after 1947 ; Opera, 1948-60 ; Instrumental music, 1948-60 ; The avant-garde ; Music in the non-Russian Republics. |
| Abstract | Part of the ten-volume New Oxford History of Music series, this last volume in the series examines how, while radical innovations continue, many of the changes during the first half of the 20th century are now at a sufficient distance to allow a balanced historical assessment. |
| Local note | Joyner-FOR JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF MUSIC, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER ML160 .N44. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 701-733) and index. |
| LCCN | 74182275 |
| ISBN | 0193163101 |