Music since 1900
By: Nicolas Slonimsky.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
Subjects: Music -- Chronology.; Musicians -- Bio-bibliography.; Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Genres: Bio-bibliography.
Other titles: A dictionary of modern music and musicians.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 437-438.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Descriptive chronology, 1900-1937; title: pt. II. Concise biographical dictionary of twentieth-century musicians. Corrections and additions to Hull's Dictionary of modern music and musicians. Corrections and additions to Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians. Corrections and additions to Riemann's Musik-Lexikon. Corrections and additions to H.J. Moser's Musik-lexikon; title: pt. III. Letters and documents: Motu proprio of Pope Pius X on sacred music. The black list of disapproved music. Three anti-modernist poems: 1884, 1909, 1924. The art of noises. Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna (a statement of aims). Music and the classes (the ideological platform of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians) Futurist manifesto of aeromusic. History of the Dalcroze method of eurythmics. Letter from George Bernard Shaw. Letter from the president of the Composers' League in Japan.; title: What is atonality? (A radio talk by Alban Berg). Gebrauchsmusik and Gemeinschaftsmusik. Letter from Arnold Schoenberg on the origin of the twelve-tone system.