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The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross.

By: Ross, Alex, 1968-.
Contributor(s): sears [local].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007Edition: 1st ed.Description: xiv, 624 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780374249397 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0374249393.Subject(s): usic at century's end. Adult -- Follett Library Resources | -- sears | Music -- 20th century | Music -- Histoy and criticism. -- sears | -- searsDDC classification: 780.9/04
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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

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