Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

by Joseph Auner, Walter Frisch

Overview

A concise anthology including a wide range of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Twenty-six carefully chosen works—including music by Claude Debussy, Kurt Weill, William Grant Still, Pauline Oliveros, and Chen Yi—offer representative examples of genres and composers of the period. Commentaries following each score present a careful analysis of the music, and online links to purchase and download recordings make listening easier than ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393920215
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	05/14/2013
Series:	Western Music in Context: A Norton History Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Joseph Auner is Chair and Professor of Music at Tufts University. His publications include A Schoenberg Reader, The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (with Jennifer Shaw), and Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (with Judith Lochhead). A past editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Auner is the recipient of grants from the Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1903–1908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

Table of Contents

Concordance vii

Preface ix

1 Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, Movement 4 Gustav Mahler 1

2 Estampes, Pagodes Claude Debussy 15

3 Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, Mondestmnken Arnold Schoenberg 25

4 Wozzeck, Act 3, Transition and Scene 3 Alban Berg 31

5 Symphony No. 4, Movement 1 Charles Ives 48

6 Le sacre du printemps, Part I, Introduction Igor Stravinsky 58

7 Der Lindberghflug, "Introduction of the Pilot" Kurt Weill 69

8 Symphonie depsaumes, Movement 2 Igor Stravinsky 76

9 Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra, Movement 1 Maurice Ravel 90

10 Piano Piece, Op. 33a Arnold Sehoenberg 118

11 Symphony, Op. 21, Movement 2, Variations Anton Webern 126

12 Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, Movement 1 Béla Bartók 137

13 Billy the Kid Suite, "Street in a Frontier Town" (excerpt) Aaron Copland 149

14 Africa, Part 2, Land of Romance William Grant Still 163

15 War Requiem, Op. 66, Requiem aeternam Benjamin Britten 172

16 String Quartet No. 8, Op. 110, Movement 3 Dmitri Shostakovich 194

17 Le marteau sans maitre, Movement 5, Bel édifice et les presentiments Pierre Boulez 207

18 Traveling Companions Pauline Oliveros 221

19 Synchronisms No. 6 (excerpt) Mario Davidovsky 225

20 NoaNoa Kaija Saariaho 240

21 Continuum György Ligeti 246

22 String Quartet No. 5, Introduction, Giocoso, Interlude I, Lento espressivo Elliott Garter 255

23 Vox balaenae, Vocalise (… for the beginning of time) George Crumb 270

24 Ba Ban Chen Yi 274

25 Violin Phase (excerpt) Steve Reich 289

26 Doctor Atomic, Act 1, Scene 3, Batter my heart John Adams 295

Appendix 1 Reading an Orchestral Score A1

Appendix 2 Instrument Names and Abbreviations A3

Appendix 3 Glossary of Performance Indications A7