Music in the Early Twentieth Century (The Oxford History of Western Music 4) Second Revised Edition

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Music in the Early Twentieth Century , the fourth volume in Richard Taruskin's history, looks at the first half of the twentieth century, from the beginnings of Modernism in the last decade of the nineteenth century right up to the end of World War II. Taruskin discusses modernism in Germany and France as reflected in the work of Mahler, Strauss, Satie, and Debussy, the modern ballets of Stravinsky, the use of twelve-tone technique in the years following World War I, the music of Charles Ives, the influence of peasant songs on Bela Bartok, Stravinsky's neo-classical phase and the real beginnings of 20th-century music, the vision of America as seen in the works of such composers as W.C. Handy, George Gershwin, and Virgil Thomson, and the impact of totalitarianism on the works of a range of musicians from Toscanini to Shostakovich V. 1. The Earliest Notations To The Sixteenth Century -- V. 2. The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries -- V. 3. The Nineteenth Century -- V. 4. The Early Twentieth Century -- V. 5. The Late Twentieth Century. Richard Taruskin. Originally Published: 2005. New Introductions And Prefaces Added To Each Volume. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. [s.l.] : Hathitrust Digital Library, 2010. Master And Use Copy. Digital Master Created According To Benchmark For Faithful Digital Reproductions Of Monographs And Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. Http://purl.oclc.org/dlf/benchrepro0212 Reaching (for) limits Getting rid of glue Aristocratic maximalism Extinguishing the "petty 'I'" (transcendentalism, I) Containing multitudes (transcendentalism, II) Inner occurrences (transcendentalism, III) Socially validated maximalism Pathos is banned Lost or rejected illusions The cult of the commonplace In search of the "real" America In search of Utopia Music and totalitarian society. Traces the evolution of Western classical music and its instruction through the early twentieth century, discussing how it was influenced by history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and other forms of music and highlighting key composers, pieces, styles, and performances