Authors: Bryan R. Simms
ISBN-13: 9780028730202, ISBN-10: 0028730208
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wadsworth
Date Published: February 1986
Edition: 2nd Edition
Twentieth-century music is explored from both a historical and a theoretical perspective in this enlightening text. Bryan R. Simms addresses style and structure with equal care as he chronicles the evolution of music from the time of Schoenberg to the work of such current composers as Schnittke and Gorecki. Throughout the book, Simms focuses on a number of influential compositions, examining 107 major works in depth as vivid representatives of music in our time.
Repertory | ||
Introduction | ||
Pt. 1 | Structural Principles and Compositional Materials of Twentieth-Century Music | |
Ch. 1 | Tonality in Transition | 3 |
Ch. 2 | Harmonic and Motivic Associations and the "Emancipation of Dissonance" | 21 |
Ch. 3 | Triadic Harmony, Diatonic Collections, and Tonality | 43 |
Ch. 4 | Serialism | 61 |
Ch. 5 | Rhythm and Meter | 81 |
Ch. 6 | Orchestration, Tone Color, and Texture | 101 |
Pt. 2 | Music From 1900 to 1945 | |
Ch. 7 | Avant-Garde Composition in Germany and Austria | 123 |
Ch. 8 | Avant-Garde Composition in France and Russia | 163 |
Ch. 9 | Musical Nationalism | 203 |
Ch. 10 | Neoclassicism in France, Germany, and England | 234 |
Ch. 11 | Neoclassicism and Populism in American Music | 266 |
Ch. 12 | Experimental Music in America | 296 |
Pt. 3 | Music From 1945 to The Present | |
Ch. 13 | The Revival of the Avant-Garde | 319 |
Ch. 14 | Indeterminacy | 343 |
Ch. 15 | Electronic Music | 365 |
Ch. 16 | Eclecticism | 383 |
Ch. 17 | Recent Music in Europe and America | 403 |
Index | 425 |