Twelve-tone music in America
By: Joseph N. Straus.
Series: Music in the twentieth century / general editor, Arnold Whittall; Music in the twentieth century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780521899550
Subjects: Twelve-tone system -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Thirty-seven ways to write a twelve-tone piece. "Ultramodern" composers : Adolph Weiss, Wallingford Riegger, Carl Ruggles, and Ruth Crawford Seeger ; European immigrants : Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Krenek, Igor Stavinsky, and Stefan Wolpe ; Postwar pioneers : Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, George Perle, Aaron Copland, and Roger Sessions ; An older generation : composers born before 1920 : Ben Weber, George Rochberg, Ross Lee Finney, Barbara Pentland, and Roque Cordero ; Some serial neoclassicists, tonalists, jazzers, and minimalists : Arthur Berger, Irving Fine, Louise Talma, Samuel Barber, Gunther Schuller, Hale Smith, and Michael Torke ; A middle generation : composers born between 1920 and 1940 : Charles Wuorinen, Donald Martino, Ralph Shapey, Ursula Mamlok, Peter Westergaard, leonard Rosenman, and Mel Powell ; A younger generation : composers born after 1940 : Joseph Schwantner, Robert Morris, Peter Lieberson, Andrew Mead, and Jeff Nichols; title: Part two. American twelve-tone music in context. The composition of twelve-tone music in America ; The history of twelve-tone music in America ; The reception of twelve-tone music in America ; Conclusion.