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Tables of Contents for Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PROBLEMS AND OVERVIEWS
Introduction (1983)
1
21
Nicolas Slonimsky
``New Music'' as Historical Category (1969)
22
13
Carl Dahlhaus
MACHINE ART, ELECTRONIC ART, AND THE AESTHETICS OF TECHNOLOGY
The Art of Noise (1913), New Acoustical Pleasures (1916)
35
8
Luigi Russolo
The Composer in the Machine Age (1933)
43
4
George Gershwin
The Liberation of Sound (1917/1962)
47
6
Edgard Varese
The Prospects of Recording (1966)
53
34
Glenn Gould
A History of Electronic Music Pioneers (1992/1996)
87
38
David Dunn
PERSPECTIVES ON COMPOSERS AND MODERN SOCIETY
The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music (1931)
125
4
Bela Bartok
Music and Its Future (1933)
129
4
Charles Ives
The Crisis in Music (1935)
133
5
Hanns Eisler
Why Composers Write How (1929/1962)
138
23
Virgil Thomson
The Composer as Specialist (1958)
161
6
Milton Babbitt
The Composer on His Work: Meditation on a Twelve-Tone Horse (1968)
167
4
Luciano Berio
And Don't Call Them ``Lady'' Composers (1970)
171
4
Pauline Oliveros
SOUND, SPACE, AND MEANING
Prologue (1920)
175
4
Charles Ives
On Dissonant Counterpoint (1930)
179
5
Charles Seeger
Inauguration 1950--60: Feldman, Brown, Wolff, Cage (1974)
184
18
Michael Nyman
Experimental Music (1957)
202
4
John Cage
Problems and Methods of Notation (1963)
206
15
Kurt Stone
Music and the Soundscape (1987/1993)
221
12
R. Murray Schafer
TWELVE-TONE AND SERIAL COMPOSITION
Composition with Twelve Tones (1941)
233
31
Arnold Schoenberg
Twelve-Tone Invariants as Compositional Determinants (1960)
264
13
Milton Babbitt
MUSIC AMONG THE ARTS
The Problem of Opera (1928)
277
2
Alban Berg
Picasso and Stravinsky (1928)
279
16
Andre Coeuroy
Visible Music (1969)
Dieter Schnebel
Two Ways of Polyartistry (1990/1992)
295
13
Richard Kostelanetz
Minimalism in Art and Music: Origins and Aesthetics (1986)
308
13
H. Wiley Hitchcock
JAZZ AND POPULAR MUSIC
Jazz (1976)
321
12
Gunther Schuller
The Jazz Avant-Garde (1961)
333
7
Amiri Baraka
Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music (1987)
340
14
Simon Frith
Plunderphonics (1994)
354
23
Chris Cutler
Index
377