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Tables of Contents for Modernism and Music
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1 Introduction
1
22
Arnold Schoenberg, from "The Future of the Opera" (1927)
15
5
Sergei Prokofiev, from From My Life (1944)
20
3
2 Testing the Boundaries between Speech and Music
23
41
Harry Partch, from Genesis of a Music (1949)
30
8
Arnold Schoenberg, Foreword to Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
38
1
Arnold Schoenberg, "The Relationship to the Text" (1912)
39
4
Alban Berg, "Voice in Opera" (1929)
43
2
James Joyce, from "Sirens" (1922)
45
4
Virginia Woolf, from The Waves (1931)
49
3
T.S. Eliot, from "The Music of Poetry" (1942)
52
3
Carl Nielsen, from "Words, Music, and Program Music" (1925)
55
5
Paul Hindemith, from A Composers World (1949-50)
60
4
3 Testing the Boundaries between the Visual Arts and Music
64
39
PAINTING AND ARCHITECTURE
64
20
Arnold Schoenberg, from Harmonielehre (1911)
66
5
George Antheil, Letter to Nicolas Slonimsky (1936)
71
1
George Antheil, "Composer's Notes on 1952-53 Re-Editing" [of Ballet Mécanique] (1953)
71
1
Theodor Adorno, from Philosophy of Modern Music (1948)
72
8
Morton Feldman, [Time-canvas] (1983)
80
2
Iannis Xenakis, from Formalized Music (1971)
82
2
EMBODYING PHYSICAL MOVEMENT: BALLET AND FILM
84
19
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, "The Technique of Moving Plastic" (1922)
86
7
Hanns Eisler, from Composing for the Films (1947)
93
10
4 The New Music Theater
103
34
Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
108
6
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Letter to Richard Strauss (1911)
114
3
Kurt Weill, "Shifts in Musical Composition" (1927)
117
3
Kurt Weill, "Opera-Where To?" (1929)
120
4
Alban Berg, "The 'Problem of Opera"' (1928)
124
3
Ernst Krenek, from "Is Opera Still Possible Today?" (1936)
127
7
W.H. Auden, from "The World of Opera" (1967)
134
3
5 Fuller Universes of Music
137
56
ABOLISHING THE OLD RULES
137
30
Claude Debussy, from Monsieur Croche antidilettante (1901)
139
2
Ferruccio Busoni, from Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music (1907)
141
7
Max Reger, "Degeneration and Regeneration in Music" (1907)
148
9
Charles Ives, from Essays before a Sonata (1920)
157
2
Charles Ives, from "Postface to 114 Songs" (1922)
159
1
Charles Ives, "Music and Its Future" (1929)
159
6
Percy Grainger, "Free Music" (1938)
165
2
PANTONALITY
167
5
Arnold Schoenberg and Vassfly Kandinsky, Correspondence (1911)
169
3
NOISE
172
21
Luigi Russolo, "The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto" (1913)
177
8
Edgard Varèse, "Music and the Times" (1936)
185
5
John Cage, Fragments from Silence (1961)
190
3
6 New Discipline: The Twelve-Tone Method
193
31
Arnold Schoenberg, from "Composition with Twelve Tones": [fiat lux] (1941)
194
8
Anton Webern, from "The Path to Twelve-Note Composition" (1932)
202
14
Thomas Mann, from Dr. Faustus (1947)
216
6
Arthur Honegger, [The Twelve-Tone Method] (1951)
222
1
Leonard Bernstein, [The Twelve-Tone Method] (1976)
222
1
Benjamin Britten, [The Twelve-Tone Method] (1963)
223
1
7 Isms
224
113
SYMBOLISM
226
8
Charles Baudelaire, from Richard Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris (1861)
229
2
Marcel Proust, from Swarms Way (1913)
231
3
PRIMITIVISM AND EXOTICISM
234
17
Igor Stravinsky, "What I Wished to Express in The Consecration of Spring" (1913)
237
2
Igor Stravinsky, from An Autobiography (1934)
239
5
Bela Bartok, "The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music" (1931)
244
7
EXPRESSIONISM
251
25
Richard Wagner, "Beethoven" (1870)
255
10
Oskar Kokoschka, Murderer, Hope of Women (1907, 1917)
265
6
Arnold Schoenberg, from Die glückliche Hand (1910-13): [brain-storm]
271
1
Theodor Adorno, from Philosophy of Modern Music (1948)
272
4
NEOCLASSICISM AND THE NEW OBJECTIVITY
276
33
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus 1.3 (1922)
280
2
Igor Stravinsky, from An Autobiography (1936)
282
1
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, from Expositions and Developments [Expressivity] (1962)
283
1
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, from Expositions and Developments [Pulcinella] (1962)
284
2
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, from Dialogues (1968)
286
2
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft, from Themes and Conclusions (1969)
288
1
Arnold Schoenberg, from Three Satires (1925)
289
2
Ernst Krenek, from "New Humanity and Old Objectivity" (1931)
291
4
Ernst Krenek, "Music and Mathematics" (1937)
295
2
Constant Lambert, "The Age of Pastiche" (1934)
297
3
Constant Lambert, [Stravinsky as Pasticheur] (1934)
300
5
Gertrude Stein, from Lectures in America (1935)
305
2
Maurice Ravel, Interview: [Ravel's Toys] (1933)
307
1
Maurice Ravel, Interview: "Finding Tunes in Factories" (1933)
308
1
DADAISM AND SURREALISM
309
28
Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate: Rondo (1921-32)
318
2
Guillaume Apollinaire, Program Note for Parade (1917)
320
2
Erik Satie, from Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1912)
322
2
Jean Cocteau, from Cock and Harlequin (1918)
324
3
Erwin Schulhoff, "For General Intelligibility as a Confession" (1919)
327
2
Edith Sitwell, "Hornpipe" (1922)
329
1
Ernst Krenek, from "What Is Called the New Music, and Why?" (1937)
330
7
8 Music, Social Responsibility, and Politics
337
30
Hanns Eisler, "On Old and New Music" (1925)
339
4
Bertolt Brecht and Peter Suhrkamp, "The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre" (1930)
343
6
Friedrich Hollaender, Munchhausen (1931)
349
2
Friedrich Hollaender, "Cabaret" (1932)
351
4
Paul Hindemith, from A Composers World (1949-50)
355
5
Peter Kien, Der Kaiser von Atlantis: Final Scene (1943-44)
360
1
Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw (1947)
361
3
L.N. Lebedinski, Rayok: The Music Lesson (1957)
364
3
9 Testing the Boundaries between Popular and High Art
367
42
Ernest Ansermet, "On a Negro Orchestra" (1919)
368
7
Langston Hughes, from The Big Sea (1940)
375
2
Langston Hughes, "Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed" (1946-47)
377
1
Ivan Goll, "The Negroes Are Conquering Europe" (1926)
378
3
Daniel Gregory Mason, from Tune In, America (1931)
381
5
George Gershwin, "The Composer and the Machine Age" (1933)
386
4
George Antheil, "The Negro on the Spiral, or A Method of Negro Music" (1934)
390
8
Gene Krupa and Leonard Bernstein, "Has Jazz Influenced the Symphony?" (1947)
398
6
Elliott Carter, "Once Again Swing" (1939)
404
1
Elliott Carter, from "The Rhythmic Basis of American Music" (1955)
405
4
Bibliographical Note
409
2
Credits
411
4
Index
415