Music since the First World War

This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century. In a concise and accessible narrative, Whittall examines the continued but declining commitment to tonality, twelve-note serialism, and the gradual emergence of new aesthetic attitudes and concepts of musical form. Contents:Introduction -- Pt. 1 The survival of tonality: -- Symphonic music I: Nielsen, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, and others -- Béla Bartók -- Igor Stravinsky -- Symphony music II: Hindemith, Prokofiev, Shoskatovich, and others -- Opera: Richard Strauss, Weill, Janácek, Prokofiev, Britten, and others -- Pt. 2 Twelve-note music: -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- The spread of serialism: Stravinsky, Sessions, Gerhard, Dallapiccola, Babbitt -- Pt. 3 From past to future: -- The radical aesthetic: Satie, Varèse, Cage, and others -- Three individualists: Tippett, Messiaen, Carter -- Seven Europeans: Lutoslawski, Xenakis, Ligeti, Berio, Boulez, Henze, Stockhausen.