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1 score (x, 308, A10 pages) ; 24 cm. |
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Western music in context : a Norton history |
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Western music in context.
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| Note |
Companion volume to the book Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by Joseph Auner. May also be used on its own. |
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Each selection followed by its text, when present, with English translation, and an analysis written by Auner. |
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Includes three appendices: on reading an orchestral score; instrument names and abbreviations and note names in English, French, German, and Italian; and a glossary of stylistic terms. |
| Contents |
Symphony no. 3 in D minor. Movement 4 / Gustav Mahler -- Estampes. Pagodes / Claude Debussy -- Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21. Mondestrunken / Arnold Schoenberg -- Wozzeck. Act 3. Transition and Scene 3 / Alban Berg -- Symphony no. 1. Movement 1 / Charles Ives -- Le sacre du printemps. Part 1. Introduction / Igor Stravinsky -- Der Lindberghflug. Introduction of the pilot / Kurt Weill -- Symphony de psaumes. Movement 2 / Igor Stravinsky -- Concerto in G for piano and orchestra. Movement 1 / Maurice Ravel -- Piano piece, op. 33a / Arnold Schoenberg -- Symphony, op. 21. Movement 2, Variations / Anton Webern -- Music for strings, percussion, and celesta. Movement 1 / Béla Bartók -- Billy the Kid suite. Street in a frontier town (excerpt) / Aaron Copland -- Africa. Part 2, Land of romance / William Grant Still -- War Requiem, op. 66. Requiem aeternam / Benjamin Britten -- String quartet no. 8, op. 110. Movement 3 / Dmitri Shostakovich -- Le marteau sans maître. Movement 5, Bel édifice et les pressentiments / Pierre Boulez -- Traveling companions / Pauline Oliveros -- Synchronisms no. 6 (excerpt) / Mario Davidovsky -- NoaNoa / Kaija Saariaho -- Continuum / György Ligeti -- String quartet no. 5. Introduction, Giocoso, Interlude I, Lento espressivo / Elliott Carter -- Vox balaenae. Vocalise-- for the beginning of time / George Crumb -- Ba ban / Chen Yi -- Violin phase (excerpt) / Steve Reich -- Doctor Atomic. Act 1. Scene 3, Batter my heart / John Adams. |
| Language |
Vocal selections in English, German or Latin. |
| Subject |
Musical analysis -- Music collections
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959- compiler.
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| Cover Title |
Anthology, music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries |
| Added Title |
Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries |
| ISBN |
9780393920215 |
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0393920216 |
| Standard No. |
9780393920215 |
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