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Book Synopsis
The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: A Sense of Possibility

Part I: From the Turn of the Century to the First World War

2. Expanding Musical Worlds at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
3. Making New Musical Languages
4. Folk Sources, the Primitive, and the Search for Authenticity

Part II: The Interwar Years

5. New Music Taking Flight after World War I
6. Paris, Neo-Classicism, and the Art of the Everyday
7. The Search for Order and Balance
8. Inventing Traditions

Part III: The Second World War and Its Aftermath

9. Rebuilding amid the Ruins
10. Electronic Music from Magnetic Tape to the Internet
11. Trajectories of Order and Chance

Part IV: From the 1960s to the Present

12. Texture, Groups, Loops, and Layers
13. Histories Recollected and Remade
14. Minimalism and its Repercussions
15. Border Crossings

Music in the Twentieth and TwentyFirst Centuries

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: 25/06/2013
      ISBN13: 9780393929201, 978-0393929201
      ISBN10: 0393929205
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction: A Sense of Possibility

      Part I: From the Turn of the Century to the First World War

      2. Expanding Musical Worlds at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
      3. Making New Musical Languages
      4. Folk Sources, the Primitive, and the Search for Authenticity

      Part II: The Interwar Years

      5. New Music Taking Flight after World War I
      6. Paris, Neo-Classicism, and the Art of the Everyday
      7. The Search for Order and Balance
      8. Inventing Traditions

      Part III: The Second World War and Its Aftermath

      9. Rebuilding amid the Ruins
      10. Electronic Music from Magnetic Tape to the Internet
      11. Trajectories of Order and Chance

      Part IV: From the 1960s to the Present

      12. Texture, Groups, Loops, and Layers
      13. Histories Recollected and Remade
      14. Minimalism and its Repercussions
      15. Border Crossings

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