The Rest Is Noise
Subtitle: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: October 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780374249397
Subjects: History; History - General History; Music/Songbooks; History: World; History & Criticism - General; Music / History & Criticism; Modern - 20th Century; 20th century; Histoy and criticism; Music
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: xv; label: Where to Listen
pagenum: xix; title: Part I: 1900-1933; label: Chapter 1
title: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siècle
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2
title: Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality
pagenum: 36; label: Chapter 3
title: Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz
pagenum: 80; label: Chapter 4
title: Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington
pagenum: 130; label: Chapter 5
title: Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius
pagenum: 171; label: Chapter 6
title: City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties
pagenum: 194; title: Part II: 1933-1945; label: Chapter 7
title: The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin's Russia
pagenum: 235; label: Chapter 8
title: Music for All: Music in FDR's America
pagenum: 264; label: Chapter 9
title: Death Fugue: Music in Hitler's Germany
pagenum: 333; title: Part III: 1945-2000; label: Chapter 10
title: Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music, 1945-1949
pagenum: 373; label: Chapter 11
title: Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties
pagenum: 386; label: Chapter 12
title: "Grimes! Grimes!": The Passion of Benjamin Britten
pagenum: 447; label: Chapter 13
title: Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties
pagenum: 483; label: Chapter 14
title: Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists
pagenum: 515; label: Chapter 15
title: Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century's End
pagenum: 558; label: Epilogue
pagenum: 589; label: Notes
pagenum: 593; label: Suggested Listening and Reading
pagenum: 651; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 663; label: Index
pagenum: 667