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050 00 $aML197$b.W54 2003
100 1 $aWhittall, Arnold.
245 10 $aExploring twentieth-century music :$btradition and innovation /$cArnold Whittall.
246 3 $aExploring 20th-century music
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2003.
300 $axi, 238 p. :$bill., music ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and indexes.
505 0 $aPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. The work in the world; 2. Reflections, reactions; 3. Rites of renewal and remembrance; 4. Transcending the secular; 5. Overlapping opposites: Schoenberg observed; 6. The subject of Britten; 7. Engagement or alienation?; 8. Rites of transformation; 9. Modernism, lyricism; 10. Experiment and orthodoxy; 11. Modernism in retreat?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
520 1 $a"Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Janacek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skillfully between the cultural and the technical, the general and the particular, to explore the various contexts and critical perspectives which illuminate certain works by these composers. Considering the extent to which place and nationality contribute to the definition of musical character, he investigates the relevance of such images as mirroring and symmetry, the function of genre and the way types of identity may be suggested by such labels as classical, modernist, secular, sacred, radical, traditional. These categories are considered as flexible and interactive and they generate a wide-ranging series of narratives delineating some of the most fundamental forces which affected composers and their works within the complex and challenging world of the twentieth century."--Jacket.
650 0 $aMusic$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
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