The music of Alban Berg / by Headlam, David John

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"Music's obedient daughter" : the opera libretto from source to score /

Table of Contents: “…: Reflections on the Genesis and Dramaturgy of Illica's, Giacosa's and Puccini's Madama Butterfly -- The End of a Line: Strauss' and Hofmannsthal's Elektra -- "Something Uncommonly German": Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina, Eine Musikalische Legende -- The Musical Personality of Don Quixote: Manuel de Falla's El Retablo de Maese Pedro -- Transformations of the Killing of a Boy: Weill's and Brecht's Der Jasager -- A Theological Midrash in Search of Operatic Action: Moses und Aron by Arnold Schoenberg -- The Making of a Victim: From Crabbe's The Borough to Slater's and Britten's Peter Grimes -- Opera on Opera: Luciano Berio's Opera -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.…”
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Music of the twentieth century : an anthology /

Contributor biographical information

Anneliese Landau's Life in Music Nazi Germany to Émigré California / by Hirsch, Lily E., 1979-

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The unanswered question.

20th century /

Table of Contents: “…. : for piano and magnetic tape (13:59) / Luigi Nono -- Masse : omaggio a Edgard Varèse : for piano and orchestra / Giacomo Manzoni (Berliner Philharmoniker; Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor) (19:32) -- Three piano pieces, op. 11 (14:00) ; Six little piano pieces : op. 19 (6:00) ; Five piano pieces, op. 23 (11:00) ; Suite for piano, op. 25 (15:00) ; Piano piece, op. 33a (2:07) ; Piano piece, op. 33b (3:33) ; Concerto for piano and orchestra, op. 42 (Berliner Philharmoniker; Claudio Abbado, conductor) (20:00) / Arnold Schoenberg -- Piano concerto no. 1, Sz 83 (24:00) ; Piano concerto no. 2, Sz 95 (28:00) / Béla Bartók (Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor) -- 12 études / Claude Debussy (42:00) -- Sonata for piano, op. 1 / Alban Berg (10:42) -- Préludes, book 1 (38:00) ; L'isle joyeuse (5:41) / Claude Debussy.…”
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Music by the numbers : from Pythagoras to Schoenberg / by Maor, Eli

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Voices : Live & Studio Recordings 1952-2007 /

Table of Contents: “…Vidit suum dulcem natum / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (31:07) -- Concert aria, KV 505 : Chi'io mi scordi di te / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (5:10) -- Im Abendrot from Vier letzte Lieder / Richard Strauss (3:41) -- Erwartung / Arnold Schoenberg (3:59) -- Die Lustige Witwe. Ih, du gode Gud! …”
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The artist's album /

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Free speech beyond words : the surprising reach of the first amendment / by Tushnet, Mark, 1945-

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The betrayal of the humanities : the university during the Third Reich /

Table of Contents: “…Law, music, and philosophy in the Third Reich -- Hitler's willing law professors / Oren Gross -- The music of Arnold Schoenberg : catastrophe and creation / Michael Cherlin -- Political philosophy : Hannah Arendt and Aurel Kolnai as interpreters of the Nazi totalitarian state / Emmanuel Faye -- III. …”
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S'amuse--"auf Deutsch".

Table of Contents: “…/ Hugo Wolf (2:19) -- Da unten im Tale (2:15) ; Och Muder, ich well en Ding han (1:37) / Johannes Brahms -- Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht / Gustav Mahler (2:03) -- Erstes Liebeslied eine Mädchens (1;15) ; Wiegenlied in Sommer (3:29) / Hugo Wolf -- Abends, will ich schlafen gehn / Engelbert Humperdinck (2:25) -- Mahnung / Arnold Schoenberg (3:00) -- Lob des hohen Verstandes / Gustav Mahler (3:05) -- Valse triste: Denkst du nie daran? …”
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The twelve-note music of Anton Webern : old forms in a new language / by Puffett, Kathryn

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The roaring silence : John Cage, a life / by Revill, David, 1965-

Lou Harrison / by Miller, Leta E.

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Music since 1900 / by Kuhn, Laura Diane

Table of Contents: “…Descriptive Chronology 1900-2000 -- Letters and Documents -- Motu Proprio of Pope Pius X on Sacred Music -- Mediator Dei of Pope Pius XII on the Sacred Liturgy -- The Black List of Disapproved Music --Three Anti-Modernist Poems: 1884, 1909, 1924 -- Manifesto of Futurist Musicians --Technical Manifesto of Futurist Music -- The Art of Noises -- Down with the Tango and Parsifal -- Futurist Manifesto of Aeromusic -- History of the Dalcroze Method of Eurhythmics -- Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna -- What Is Atonality -- Letter from Arnold Schoenberg on the Origin of the Twelve-Tone Method of Composition -- Letter from Anton Von Webern --Gebrauchsmusik and Gemeinschaftsmusik -- Letter from George Bernard Shaw -- Letters from Charles E. …”
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The modernist novel : a critical introduction / by Kern, Stephen

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Beyond Fingal's cave : Ossian in the musical imagination / by Porter, James, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Petersburg : Calto, Clato, Aganadeca, Gaulo ed Oitona, and two Fingals -- Beethoven's Ossianic manner, or, Where scholars fear to tread -- Excursus: Mendelssohn waives the rules : "Overture to the Isles of Fingal" (1832) and an "unfinished" coda -- The maiden bereft : "Colma" from Rust (1780) to Schubert (1816) -- Scáenes lyriques sans frontiáeres : Louis Thâeodore Gouvy's Le dernier hymne d'Ossian (1858) and Lucien Hillemacher's Fingal (1880) -- Ossian in symbolic conflict : Bernhard Hopffer's Darthula's Grabgesang (1878), Jules Bordier's Un rãeve d'Ossian (1885), and Paul Umlauft's Agandecca (1884) -- The musical stages of "Darthula" : from Thomas Linley the Younger (ca. 1776) to Arnold Schoenberg (1903) and Armin Knab (1906) -- The cantata as drama : Joseph Jongen's Comala (1897), J²rgen Malling's Kyvala (1902), and Liza Lehmann's Leaves from Ossian (1909) -- Symphonic poem and orchestral fantasy : Alexandre Levy's Comala (1890) and Charles Villiers Stanford's Irish rhapsody no. 2: Lament for the son of Ossian (1903) -- Neo-Romanticism in Britain and America : John Laurence Seymour's "Shilric's song" (from Six Ossianic odes) and Cedric Thorpe Davie's Dirge for Cuthullin (both 1936) -- Modernity, modernism, and Ossian : Erik Chisholm's Night song of the bards (1944-51), James MacMillan's The death of Oscar (2013), and Jean Guillou's Ballade ossianique, no. 2: Les chants de Selma (1971, rev. 2005) -- Afterword: The "half-viewless harp"--secondary resonances of Ossian -- Appendix I: Title page and dedication of Harriet Wainewright's Comáala -- Appendix 2: French and German texts of Louis Thâeodore Gouvy's Le dernier hymne d'Ossian -- Appendix 3: Texts of Erik Chisholm's Night song of the bards -- Appendix 4: Provisional list of musical compositions based on the poems of Ossian.…”
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I Sang the Unsingable : My Life in Twentieth-Century Music. by Beardslee, Bethany

Table of Contents: “…18 1955 and Pierrot lunaire: A Tumultuous Year19 Camera Concerts with Stanley Seeger; Part Three: Godfrey (1956-62); 20 A Season of Change: Summer 1956; 21 Godfrey Winham; 22 London; 23 New York Pro Musica: 1958; 24 The Fromm Music Foundation; 25 Earl Kim and Russell Sherman; 26 Working with Martha Graham; 27 Threni and the Altenberg Lieder; 28 Princeton and Saskatoon; 29 The Russian Delegation; 30 Recordings with Robert Craft; 31 To Prove My Love; 32 Baird and Christopher Winham: Life in Princeton; 33 Das Buch der hängenden Gärten: Opus 15 by Arnold Schoenberg; Part Four: New Music (1963-75).…”
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Music resistance from 1900 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…The Spanish musical avant-garde at the 1976 Venice biennale / Igor Contreras Zubillaga -- "A masterpiece inspired by the resistance": Arnold Schoenberg's A survivor from Warsaw in post-war Italy / Paolo Dal Molin -- Spiritual and civil resistance in performances of The bartered bride in Theresienstadt / James A. …”