Composers on modern musical culture : an anthology of readings on twentieth-century music

compiled and edited by Bryan R. Simms
Bok · Engelsk · 1999

Utgitt	New York : Schirmer Books , 1999
Omfang	xiii, 286 s.
Opplysninger	Conversation with M. Croche / Claude Debussy. - Sketch of a new esthetic of music / Ferruccio Busoni. - Aesthetic evaluation of chords with six or more tones, from Theory of Harmony / Arnold Schoenberg. - The problem of the new music ; The relation of folk-song to the development of the art music of our time / Béla Bartók. - What is atonality? / Alban Berg. - Back to Bach / Charles Koechlin. - The musician Weill / Kurt Weill. - Contemporary music / Maurice Ravel. - New and outmoded music, or style and idea / Arnold Schoenberg. - Should music be national? / Ralph Vaughan Williams. - The composition of music, from Poetics of Music / Igor Stravinsky and Roland-Manuel. - Musical inspiration, from A Composer's World / Paul Hindemith. - Schoenberg is dead / Pierre Boulez. - Who cares if you listen? : (the composer as specialist) / Milton Babbitt. - History of experimental music in the United States / John Cage. - Historical presence in music today / Luigi Nono. - On winning the first Aspen Award / Benjamin Britten. - Meditation on a twelve-tone horse / Luciano Berio. - Reflections on the renewal of music / George Rochberg. - Two Tanglewood talks : Uses of Popular Music, and Accessibility / John Harbison. Notes to 114 songs / Charles Ives. - The composer in industrial America, from Music and Imagination / Aaron Copland. - France-America Ltd. / Elliott Carter. - The evolution of the jazz band and music of the negroes of North America / Darius Milhaud. - Jazz / Virgil Thomson. - Jazz structure and influence / Aaron Copland. - Sweet, soft, plenty rhythm, from Mister Jelly Roll / Jelly Roll Morton. - The future of form in jazz / Gunther Schuller. - Jazz for young people, from Music is My Mistress / Duke Ellington
ISBN	0028647513