Ross, Alex, 1968-
The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. - xiv, 624 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-593), discography, and index.
1900-1933. The golden age : Mahler, Strauss, and the fin de siècle ; Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality ; Dance of the earth : the rite, the folk, le jazz ; Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington ; Apparition in the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius ; City of nets : Berlin in the twenties -- 1933-1945. The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia ; Music for all : music in FDR's America ; Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany -- 1945-2000. Zero hour : the U.S. army in Germany, 1945-1949 ; Brave new world : the cold war and the avant-garde of the fifties ; Grimes! Grimes! : the passion of Benjamin Britten ; Zion park : Messiaen, Lige
Library Journal Pub Weekly Kirkus Starred
Chronicles modernist music's twentieth-century history, examining developments in avant-garde and minimalist music in settings such as 1920s Paris, Hitler's Germany, and 1970s New York.
ti, and the avant- garde of the sixties ; Beethoven was wrong : bebop, rock, and the minimalists ; Sunken cathedrals : m
9780374249397 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374249393
2007004504
usic at century's end. Adult --Follett Library Resources
--sears
Music--20th century
Music--Histoy and criticism.--sears
--sears
ML197 / .R76 2007
780.9/04
The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. - xiv, 624 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-593), discography, and index.
1900-1933. The golden age : Mahler, Strauss, and the fin de siècle ; Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality ; Dance of the earth : the rite, the folk, le jazz ; Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington ; Apparition in the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius ; City of nets : Berlin in the twenties -- 1933-1945. The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia ; Music for all : music in FDR's America ; Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany -- 1945-2000. Zero hour : the U.S. army in Germany, 1945-1949 ; Brave new world : the cold war and the avant-garde of the fifties ; Grimes! Grimes! : the passion of Benjamin Britten ; Zion park : Messiaen, Lige
Library Journal Pub Weekly Kirkus Starred
Chronicles modernist music's twentieth-century history, examining developments in avant-garde and minimalist music in settings such as 1920s Paris, Hitler's Germany, and 1970s New York.
ti, and the avant- garde of the sixties ; Beethoven was wrong : bebop, rock, and the minimalists ; Sunken cathedrals : m
9780374249397 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374249393
2007004504
usic at century's end. Adult --Follett Library Resources
--sears
Music--20th century
Music--Histoy and criticism.--sears
--sears
ML197 / .R76 2007
780.9/04