Music In The Twentieth And Twenty First Centuries Western Music In Context A Norton History

Author : Joseph Auner
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393929205

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Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Western Music in Context: A Norton History) by Joseph Auner Pdf

The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Joseph Auner's Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries explores the sense of possibility unleashed by the era's destabilizing military conflicts, social upheavals, and technological advances. Auner shows how the multiplicity of musical styles has called into question traditional assumptions about compositional practice, the boundaries of music and noise, and the relationship among composer, performer, and listener. He also shows how composers and their works have played important roles in defining ideas of nation, race, and gender, and thus in shaping the modern world for better and worse. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense—as sounds notated, performed, and heard—focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

Author : Walter Frisch
Publisher : Western Music in Context: A No
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393929191

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Music in the Nineteenth Century by Walter Frisch Pdf

Nineteenth-century music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. Music in the Nineteenth Century examines the period from the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the advent of Modernism in the 1890s. Frisch traces a complex web of relationships involving composers, performers, publishers, notated scores, oral traditions, audiences, institutions, cities, and nations. The book's central themes include middle-class involvement in music, the rich but elusive concept of Romanticism, the cult of virtuosity, and the ever-changing balance between musical and commercial interests. The final chapter considers the sound world of nineteenth-century music as captured by contemporary witnesses and early recordings. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense--as sounds notated, performed, and heard--focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

Author : Wendy Heller
Publisher : Western Music in Context: A No
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSD:31822038698676

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Music in the Baroque (Western Music in Context: A Norton History) by Wendy Heller Pdf

Companion to Music in the baroque.

Author : John A. Rice
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393929183

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Music in the Eighteenth Century by John A. Rice Pdf

Eighteenth Century Music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts. John Rice's Music in the Eighteenth Century takes the reader on an engrossing Grand Tour of Europe's musical centers, from Naples, to London, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, and St. Petersburg —with a side trip to the colonial New World. Against the backdrop of Europe's largely peaceful division into Catholic and Protestant realms, Rice shows how "learned" and "galant" styles developed and commingled. While considering Mozart, Haydn, and early Beethoven in depth, he broadens his focus to assess the contributions of lesser-known but significant figures like Johann Adam Hiller, Francois-André Philidor, and Anna Bon. Western Music in Context: A Norton History comprises six volumes of moderate length, each written in an engaging style by a recognized expert. Authoritative and current, the series examines music in the broadest sense—as sounds notated, performed, and heard—focusing not only on composers and works, but also on broader social and intellectual currents.

Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199792283

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Modern Music and After by Paul Griffiths Pdf

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage's development of zen music; in Milton Babbitt's settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich's unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausen's development of electronic music and in Luigi Nono's pursuit of the universally human, in Iannis Xenakis's view of music as sounding mathematics and in Luciano Berio's consideration of it as language. The initiatives of these composers and their contemporaries opened prospects that haven't yet stopped unfolding. This constant expansion of musical thinking since 1945 has left us with no singular history of music; Griffiths's study accordingly follows several different paths, showing how and why they converge and diverge. This new edition of Modern Music and After discusses not only the music of the fifteen years that have passed since the previous edition, but also the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the latter half of the twentieth century. In particular, the book has been expanded to incorporate the variety of responses to the modernist impasse experienced by composers of the 1980s and 1990s. Griffiths then moves the book into the twenty-first century as he examines such highly influential composers as Helmut Lachenmann and Salvatore Sciarrino. For its breadth, wealth of detail, and characteristic wit and clarity, the third edition of Modern Music and After is required reading for the student and the enquiring listener.

Author : Robert P. Morgan,ROBERT C. MORGAN
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 039395272X

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Twentieth-century Music by Robert P. Morgan,ROBERT C. MORGAN Pdf

Traces the currents that have shaped the development of music in the twentieth century and discusses the contributions of such composers as Mahler, Debussy, Stockhausen, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, and Stravinsky

Author : Barbara Russano Hanning
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393971686

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Concise History of Western Music by Barbara Russano Hanning Pdf

Concise History of Western Music combines Grout and Palisca's uncompromising reliability, scope, and respect for the narrative, while offering many more pedagogical aids, such as chapter preludes and postludes; "Etudes," excursions that explore the material more deeply than the main text; and "Windows," boxed discussions of special topics.

Author : Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393929884

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Music Then and Now by Thomas Forrest Kelly Pdf

A "you are there" guide to masterpieces of Western music.

Author : Burkholder, J. Peter,Grout, Donald Jay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393937114

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A History of Western Music by Burkholder, J. Peter,Grout, Donald Jay Pdf

Combining current scholarship with cutting-edge pedagogy, the Ninth Edition of A History of Western Music is the text that students and professors have trusted for generations. Combining thoughtful revisions - particularly to chapters on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - with exceptional media resources, A History of Western Music provides all the resources that students need in a text that will last a lifetime.

Author : Claude V. Palisca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music appreciation
ISBN : 0393969061

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Norton Anthology of Western Music by Claude V. Palisca Pdf

Author : J. R. McNeill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393321838

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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) by J. R. McNeill Pdf

Assesses the impact of humanity on twentieth century Earth, exploring the indirect effects of politics, international relations, technological change, key scientists, and environmental disasters and policies.

Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822315440

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Within the Circle by Angelyn Mitchell Pdf

Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn Mitchell explains in her introduction the importance for those "within the circle" of African American literature to examine their own works and to engage this critical canon. The essays in this collection--many of which are not widely available today--either initiated or gave critical definition to specific periods or movements of African American literature. They address issues such as integration, separatism, political action, black nationalism, Afrocentricity, black feminism, as well as the role of art, the artist, the critic, and the audience. With selections from Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, W. E. B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Barbara Smith, Alice Walker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and many others, this definitive collection provides a dynamic model of the cultural, ideological, historical, and aesthetic considerations in African American literature and literary criticism. A major contribution to the study of African American literature, this volume will serve as a foundation for future work by students and scholars. Its importance will be recognized by all those interested in modern literary theory as well as general readers concerned with the African American experience. Selections by (partial list): Houston A. Baker, Jr., James Baldwin, Sterling Brown, Barbara Christian, W. E. B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, Sarah Webster Fabio, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. Lawrence Hogue, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Deborah E. McDowell, Toni Morrison, J. Saunders Redding, George Schuyler, Barbara Smith, Valerie Smith, Hortense J. Spillers, Robert B. Stepto, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Mary Helen Washington, Richard Wright

Author : Donald Jay Grout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393969045

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A History of Western Music by Donald Jay Grout Pdf

Author : Richard J. Powell
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500776209

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Black Art: A Cultural History (Third) (World of Art) by Richard J. Powell Pdf

This groundbreaking study explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and the music videos of Solange. This study concentrates on how these works, often created during times of major social upheaval and transformation, use Black culture both as a subject and as context. From musings on “the souls of black folk” in late-nineteenth-century art to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media, and computer-assisted arts in the twenty-first century, this book examines the philosophical and social forces that have shaped Black presence in modern and contemporary visual culture. Renowned art historian Richard J. Powell presents Black art drawn from across the African diaspora, with examples from the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. Black Art features artworks executed in a broad range of media, including film, photography, performance art, conceptual art, advertising, and sculpture. Now updated and expanded, this new edition helps to better understand how the first two decades of the twenty-first century have been a transformative moment in which previous assumptions about race and identity have been irrevocably altered, with art providing a useful lens through which to think about these compelling issues.

Author : Alexander Rehding,Steven Rings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190454753

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory by Alexander Rehding,Steven Rings Pdf

Music Theory has a lot of ground to cover. Especially in introductory classes a whole range of fundamental concepts are introduced at fast pace that can never be explored in depth or detail, as other new topics become more pressing. The short time we spend with them in the classroom belies the complexity (and, in many cases, the contradictions) underlying these concepts. This book takes the time to tarry over these complexities, probe the philosophical assumptions on which these concepts rest, and shine a light on all their iridescent facets. This book presents music-theoretical concepts as a register of key terms progressing outwards from smallest detail to discussions of the music-theoretical project on the largest scale. The approaches individual authors take range from philosophical, historical, or analytical to systematic, cognitive, and critical-theorical-covering the whole diverse spectrum of contemporary music theory. In some cases authors explore concepts that have not yet been widely added to the theorist's toolkit but deserve to be included; in other cases concepts are expanded beyond their core repertory of application. This collection does not shy away from controversy. Taken in their entirety, the essays underline that music theory is on the move, exploring new questions, new repertories, and new approaches. This collection is an invitation to take stock of music theory in the early twenty-first century, to look back and to encourage discussion about its future directions. Its chapters open up a panoramic view of the contemporary music-theoretical landscape with its expanding repertories and changing guiding questions, and offers suggestions as to where music theory is headed in years to come.