Since Debussy ; a view of contemporary music / Andre Hodeir; Translated by Noel Burch.
| Author/creator | Hodeir, André |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Grove Press, [1961] |
| Description | 256 pages : portraits, facsimiles, music ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Musique depuis Debussy. English |
| Series | Evergreen original, E-260 Evergreen original ; E-260. ^A910394 |
| Contents | Introduction. Music and civilization ; The transitional role of the years between the two world wars ; The myth of independent national schools ; A tribute to Claude Debussy -- Part one. Igor Stravinsky. Stravinsky's career ; The supreme musical achievement: The Rite of Spring and Les Noces ; The decline and fall of Stravinsky ; The Stravinsky riddle -- Arnold Schonberg. Schonberg's career ; Schonberg's work: 1) elimination of the tonal system ; Schonberg's work: 2) the invention of the row ; Schonberg's decline -- Alban Berg. Berg's career ; The instrumental works ; The operas -- Anton Webern. Biography and catalogue of works ; Webern's "Aural sensibility" ; Organization and dialectics ; Webern: pioneer of a new musical order -- Bela Bartok. Bartok's career; Bartok the man ; Symphonic and chamber music ; Characteristics of Bartok's music -- Part two. Olivier Messiaen. Messiaen's career ; Messiaen: a self-portrait ; Messiaen's reform of musical language ; Messiaen's downfall: form -- Pierre Boulez. Boulez from 1944-1958 ; The early works (the second piano sonata) ; The laboratory years ; The sound-object ; Stereophonic music ; Chance makes its appearance ; Form and style (Le Marteau sans Maitre) ; A serial poetics -- Jean Barraque. Biographical notes ; Sequence and the great lyrical tradition in singing ; Sequence: the "Orchestra-as-instrument" ; Form and tone-row in Sequence ; The piano sonata ; Etude: "Music for tape" ; La Mort de Virgile -- Conclusion. Soviet music ; American music ; The art of arts. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242), discography (pages 243-250) and index. "A selective discography": p. 243-250. |
| LCCN | 60011095 |
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