| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
xx, 708 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 552-662. |
| Contents |
"...On the edge, trembling with emotion": Adventure and achievement of Debussy -- Catchwords and issues of the 20th-century music -- Debussy's 20-century music; history in the service of "recruiting unknown friends" -- Contemporaries in America, Australia, Japan -- Contemporaries in Slavic lands -- Contemporaries in England and Northern Europe -- Contemporaries in Italy and Southern Europe -- Contemporaries in Austria-Hungary -- Contemporaries in Germany -- Contemporaries in France -- "Privilege...becoming more exclusive": Emergence of jazz, to about 1923 -- Schoenberg to the twelve-tone technique (1922) -- Bartok to the dance suit (1923) -- Stravinsky to the octet and the wedding (1923) -- Jazz, mainstream and modern -- Schoenberg to his death (1951) -- Bartok to his death (1945) -- Stravinsky to the rake's progress (1951) -- "Horizons still more luminous": Webern -- Varese, Orff, Messiaen, and many others -- "Art of music...has taken a few steps further": Hindemith -- Further steps in France, Italy, England -- Further steps in the Soviet Union, America, Germany -- "In this sense...universal": Prokofiev -- Composers comparable to Prokofiev, born 1892 or earlier -- Successors to Prokofiev -- Stravinsky to his eightieth birthday. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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