Twentieth-Century Chamber Music / Edition 2

by James McCalla

Overview

This series presents introductory guides to key musical genres in the Western classical canon. Designed for the avid listener or the student of music history, each volume offers chapters exploring principal composers and their works, as well as contextual essays. Written by eminent music scholars, generously illustrated with musical examples, and furnished with suggested bibliographies, Routledge Studies in Musical Genres provide readable yet informative surveys for music lovers and dedicated musicians alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415966954
Publication date:	08/22/2003
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Prof of Music at Bowdoin, College. James McCalla is a resident of Brusnwick, Maine.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Prelude: A Historical Introduction	x
	Before World War I
	The Inter-War Years
	From 1945 to the late 1960s
	The Late 20th Century
1.	Twentieth-Century Chamber Music: An Introduction	1
	A Musical Narrative: Arnold Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht
	Time Present and Time Past: Two Sonatas for Violin and Piano
	Wheels Come Full Circle: Boulez's Le marteau sans maitre
2.	Music and Literature I: Program Music	35
	Narrative and Temporal Programs: Berg and Carter
	Scenes outside Time: Debussy and Stravinsky
	Hearing Time Stop: Messiaen
	Musical Montage and Ambiguous Signs: Debussy
3.	Music and Literature II: Vocal Chamber Music	60
	Before World War I: Schoenberg and Others
	Old and New after 1945: Stravinsky and Berio
	After the 1950s: Chamber and Chamber-Theater Pieces
4.	New Ensembles, New Works	103
	Three Early Modern Works: Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Debussy
	Contrasts and Duets: Contrasts: Bartok, Messiaen, Babbitt; Chamber Music with Percussion: Cage, Stockhausen, Carter, Bartok; Chamber Music for Performers and Tape; Duets for Live Performers
	Sui Generis Ensembles
5.	The Modern Sonata	161
	The Modern "Baroque" Sonata: Bartok
	The Modern "Classical" Sonata: Prokofiev, Ravel, Stravinsky
	The Modern Sonata: Debussy, Bartok, Poulenc, Carter
6.	The String Quartet	188
	Before World War I: Ravel, Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, and Ives
	Schoenberg, Bartok, Shostakovich, Seeger
	The Post-1945 Quartet in the United States
	Selected Bibliography	267
	Index	279