Title: The new music, 1900-1960.
Authors: Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Year: 1968
Subjects: Music History and criticism
Abstract: The composer provides an introduction to the formative musical ideas of our century, and a survey of recent and current trends.
Contents: 1. Survey of contemporary European composers (1900-1960) -- The argument -- Preliminaries -- The background-late nineteenth century -- The foreground-before 1914 -- Music between the wars (1918-1939) -- 2. Composers in America -- Composers without a halo -- New music in the U.S.A. -- The Ives case -- Roy Harris -- Sessions and Piston -- Thomson and Blitzstein -- Composer from Mexico: Carlos Chávez -- Composer from Brooklyn: an autobiographical sketch -- 3. The present day -- The generation of the fifties -- The music of chance -- New electronic media.