Music in the Late Twentieth 20th Century The Oxford History of Western Music 5 1st Edition by Richard Taruskin ISBN 9780195384857 0195384857

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Author: Richard Taruskin

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 Late Twentieth Century is the final installment of the set, covering the years from the end of World War II to the present. In these pages, Taruskin illuminates the great compositions of recent times, offering insightful analyses of works by Aaron Copland, John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Benjamin Britten, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, among many others. He also looks at the impact of electronic music and computers, the rise of pop music and rock ‘n’ roll, the advent of postmodernism, and the contemporary music of Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, and John Adams. Laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this book will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand this rich and diverse period.

Table of contents: 

1. Starting from Scratch
   Music in the Aftermath of World War II; Zhdanovshchina, Darmstadt

2. Indeterminacy
   Cage and the “New York School”

3. The Apex
   Babbitt and Cold War Serialism

4. The Third Revolution
   Music and Electronic Media; Varèse’s Career

5. Standoff (I)
   Music in Society: Britten

6. Standoff (II)
   Music in History: Carter

7. The Sixties
   Changing Patterns of Consumption and the Challenge of Pop

8. A Harmonious Avant-Garde?
   Minimalism: Young, Riley, Reich, Glass; Their European Emulators

9. After Everything
   Postmodernism: Rochberg, Crumb, Lerdahl, Schnittke

10. Millennium’s End
    The Advent of Postliteracy: Partch, Monk, Anderson, Zorn; New Patterns of Patronage

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