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100	1		_aWhittall, Arnold.
245	1	0	_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. ; _c26 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and indexes.
505	0		_a1. The work in the world : Western orientations -- Progressiveness and place -- City life -- Place, personality and Sibelius -- Environmental sensibilities. 2. Reflections, reactions : Debussy in the mirror -- Webern's tribute to perfection -- Form and content: Webern's Op.27/iii -- Canonic resonances. 3. Rites of renewal and remembrance : Janacek's conventions -- Janacek in context -- Bartok and tradition -- Bartok in 1939. 4. Transcending the secular : From classical to neoclassical -- Dithyramb -- Here and now, there and then. 5. Overlapping opposites: Schoenberg observed : Character -- Models -- Meanings -- Music, religion, politics. 6. The subject of Britten : Fulfillment, frustration -- Masking Dionysus -- The constraints of genre. 7. Engagement or alienation? : Between politics and art -- Marxism and after: Kagel -- Beethoven and after: Tippet and Shostakovich -- Judging Schnittke -- Affirmation, irony. 8. Rites of transformation : Words about harmony -- Aspects of the Requiem: Mozart, Wagner, Henze -- Wagner, Britten, Henze -- The German labyrinth. 9. Modernism, lyricism : Shadow and symmetry -- Perspectives on Carter -- Angles on Birtwistle. 10. Experiment and orthodoxy : Minimalism, modernism, classicism -- The Dionysian clockwork -- Ways, means, materials -- Mechanical and spiritual. 11. Modernism in retreat? What kind of century? -- Theory, science, semiotics -- Resonance in space -- Echoes of voice -- Songs of ambivalence and experience -- A final focus.
520			_aPublisher description: In this wide-ranging book, 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 skilfully 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.
650		0	_aMusic _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
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