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

Table of Contents: “…Texture, timbre, loops, and layers : Origins of texture music ; Ligeti's sonorous textures and micropolyphony ; Textual approaches in the music of Stockhausen and Boulez ; Mathematical models ; Timbre and extended techniques ; Composing with layers ; For further reading -- Histories recollected and remade : The past in the present ; Quotation, protest, and social change ; Postmodernism ; Remaking traditions ; For further reading -- Minimalism and its repercussions : Origins and locales ; Minimalist art and musical processes ; Minimalist sources ; Pathways of postminimalism ; For further reading -- Border crossings : Global encounters ; Music in-between ; Multimedia and sound art ; Music, science, and technology ; Artist and audience ; For further reading.…”

Music : an appreciation / by Kamien, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Sound : pitch, dynamics, and tone color ; Performing media : voices and instruments ; Rhythm ; Music notation ; Melody ; Harmony ; Key ; Musical texture ; Musical form ; Performance ; Musical style -- The Middle Ages. …”

Twentieth-century music : a history of musical style in modern Europe and America / by Morgan, Robert P.

Table of Contents: “…Innovations in form and texture -- The implications of serialism and indeterminacy -- From pointillism to group composition -- Textural music -- New instrumental resources -- Stochastic music -- Corresponding developments in American music -- 19. …”