The cold dancer : contemporary string quartets from Scotland /

Table of Contents: “…String Quartet No. 4 (The Cold Dancer) / Kenneth Dempster (12:23) -- The Great Divorce / James Clapperton (16:03) -- String Quartet: Serene - Attacca / Judith Weir (5:38) -- String Quartet: Con Moto - Attacca / Judith Weir (5:06) -- String Quartet: Presto / Judith Weir (2:40) -- String Quartet No. 3: Lento/Allegro - Andante, Un Poco Lento (Viola Solo) - Allegro / William Sweeney (9:12) -- String Quartet No. 3: Andante/Più Lento (Viola Solo) - Lento/Allegro - Con Moto / William Sweeney (10:13) -- String Quartet No. 3: Tempo Rubato - Vivace - Molt Rubato Espressivo (Cello Solo) - Vivace / William Sweeney (17:09).…”
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Anthology for Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries /

Table of Contents:

Reconceiving structure in contemporary music : new tools in music theory and analysis / by Lochhead, Judith Irene

Table of Contents: “…-- Music analysis--producing knowledge -- Reconceiving structure : investigating, mapping, speculating -- Technê of radiance : Kaija Saariaho's Lonh (1996) -- Difference and identity : Sofia Gubaidulina's Second string quartet (1987) -- Incessance of memory : Stacy Garrop's String quartet no.2, Demons and angels (2004-05) -- Spiral morphing : emergence, saturation, and uncoiling in Anna Clyne's Choke (2004).…”

The Kaleidoscope of women's sounds in music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries / by Koay, Kheng K.

Table of Contents: “…Women composers and modern society -- Creativity, reception to and background of the composers -- Bold sound colors and space: Sofia Gubaidulina, Quaternion ; Joan Tower, String quartet no. 2, In memory -- Straddling classical and American vernacular idioms: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Millennium fantasy ; Libby Larsen, Four on the floor -- The cross-over and national influences: Chen Yi, Ba Yin ; Judith Weir, Distance and enchantment.…”
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British music after Britten / by Whittall, Arnold

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Britten and British music -- Tippett and twentieth-century polarities -- A voyage beyond romance : the music of Nicholas Maw -- Connections and constellations : Robin Holloway and Brian Ferneyhough -- Richard Barrett, Cornelius Cardew : resistance and reflection -- Shock waves : the musical elements of James Dillon -- Northern roots : John Casken, Hugh Wood, John McCabe -- Affirmative anger : James Clarke and the music of abstract expressionism -- Distressed surfaces : Morgan Hayes and twenty-first-century expressionism -- 'Into the breach' : Oliver Knussen in his time -- Rotations and reflections : the musical presence of George Benjamin -- Michael Finnissy's instrumental music drama -- The public and the personal : Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies at 80 -- Measures of authenticity : the macrotonal music of Julian Anderson -- From post-tonal to postmodern? : two string quartets by Joseph Phibbs -- The Ades effect -- Power, potential : Robert Simpson, Mark Simpson -- Michael Tippett and the modern musical citizen.…”
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Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / by Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Rebuilding amid the ruins : Social transformations ; Britten's war requiem ; Musical ramifications of the Cold War ; Shostakovich's string quartet no. 8 ; For further reading -- Trajectories of order and chance : Post-World War II contexts ; Twelve-tone composition after World War II ; Integral serialism ; Chance, indeterminacy, and the blank page ; For further reading -- Electronic music from the Cold War to the computer age : Music, science, and technology in the Cold War ; Manipulating sound in the studio ; Musique concrète ; Notating, analyzing, and listening to electronic music ; Synthesizers ; Computer music ; For further reading -- Part IV: From the 1960s to the present. …”

Occasional pieces : writings and interviews, 1952-2013 / by Wolff, Christian, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 32: Letter to Suzanne Josek (1996)Chapter 33: Thinking of David Tudor (1997) ; Chapter 34: Most Material: Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost (1997); Chapter 35: Frederic Rzewski and His Piano Music (2001); Chapter: 36 Merce Cunningham and CW Music (2001); Chapter 37: Feldman's String Quartet No. 2 (2002) ; On the duration of the performance ; Chapter 38: Earle Brown-Chamber Music (2004); Chapter 39: Some Notes on Charles Ives and Politics (2004); Chapter 40: On Day-to-Day Composing Work (2004); Chapter 41: Remembering Grete Sultan (2005).…”
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