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Changing styles of the early twentieth century -- National musics. Central and eastern Europe ; Leo Janacek, 1854-1928 ; Zoltan Kodaly, 1882-1967 ; Bela Bartok, 1881-1945 ; Russia and the Soviet Union ; Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873-1943 ; Sergei Prokofieff, 1891-1953 ; Music in the socialist state: Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906-1975 -- A wandering interlude: Stravinsky, part I -- The transformation of late Romanticism in France. Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and impressionism -- Music in Spain: Manuel de Falla, 1876-1946 -- Music in Latin America -- Nadia Boulanger, 1887-1979 -- The years of World War I: Stravinsky, part II -- An Italian interlude: music at the time of Stravinsky's visit -- Back in France: Les Six -- France revisited, 1920-40: Stravinsky, part III -- La jeune France, Olivier Messiaen, and homelitic music. Three students from Messiaen's studio: Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, and Mikis Theodorakis -- Germany, Austria, until the fall of the third reich. Arnold Schonberg ; Schonberg's pupils: Alban Berg and Anton Webern ; Music inside the third reich: Carl Orff, Wolfgang Fortner, and Hans Pfitzner -- Music in Great Britain. Gustav Hoslt, 1874-1934 ; Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 ; Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 ; Michael Tippett, 1905-1998 ; British music since the mid century: the Manchester school -- The musical maturity of the United States. Charles Edward Ives, 1874-1954 ; Serge Koussevitzky, 1874-1951 ; Aaron Copland, 1900-1990 -- The move to America: Stravinsky, part IV -- Floods of outcasts. Kurt Weill, 1900-1950 ; Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963 ; Karel Jusa, b. 1921 ; Gyorgy Ligeti, b. 1923 -- Central and eastern Europe since the mid twentieth century -- American composers since the mid century. Leonard Bernstein, 1918-1990 ; The new patronage: Campus composers -- The American avant-garde: Henry Cowell and John Cage. John Cage -- Electronic music -- Concert music in Asia: Japan. Akira Ifukube, b. 1914 ; Teizo Matsumura, b. 1929 ; Toshiro Mayuzumi, b. 1929 ; Toru Takemitsu, 1930-1996 ; Toshi Ichiyanagi, b. 1933 ; Teruyuki Noda, b. 1940 ; Shin-Ichiro Ikebe, b. 1943 -- Concert music in Asia: China -- Minimalism. Terry Riley, b. 1935 ; Steve Reich and Philip Glass ; John Adams, b. 1947. |
