Music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / by Auner, Joseph Henry, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Expanding musical worlds : New inner and outer landscapes ; Modernism, modernity, and "systems of happiness and balance" ; Gustav Mahler and the symphony as world ; Alma Mahler and the new woman ; Debussy, symbolism, exoticism, and the century of aeroplanes ; For further reading -- Making new musical languages : Atonality, post-tonality, and the emancipation of the dissonance ; Busoni's new aesthetic of music ; Futurism and The art of noises ; Strauss and referential tonality ; Skryabin's new harmonic structures ; Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern ; For further reading -- Folk sources, the primitive, and the search for authenticity : Locating the folk ; Sibelius: creating Finnishness ; Ives's America ; Primitivism and the folk ; Bartók and the search for a mother tongue ; Stravinsky, Russianness, and the folk estranged ; For further reading -- Part II: The interwar years. …”