
The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century
Häftad bok. 4th Estate. 2019. 695 sidor.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781841154763
- Titel
- The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century
- Författare
- Ross, Alex
- Utgivningsår
- 2019
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Innehåller förslag på litteratur och CD
Pt. 1. 1900-1933. -- The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de siècle -- Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality -- Dance of the earth : the Rite, the folk, le jazz -- Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington -- Apparition from the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius -- City of nets : Berlin in the twenties -- pt. 2. 1933-1945. -- The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia -- Music for all : music in FDR's America -- Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany -- pt. 3. 1945-2000. -- Zero hour : the U.S. army and German music, 1945-1949 -- Brave new world : the Cold War and the avant-garde of the fifties -- "Grimes! Grimes!" : the passion of Benjamin Britten -- Zion Park : Messiaen, Ligeti, and the avant-garde of the sixties -- Beethoven was wrong : bop, rock, and the minimalists -- Sunken cathedrals : music at century's end.