The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de siècle - Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality - Dance of the earth : the Rite, the folk, le jazz - Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington - Apparition from the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius - City of nets : Berlin in the twenties -ġ933-1945. Publisher error in pagination of contents: Acknowledgements start on p. Includes bibliographical references, discography (p. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2007 Music critic Alex Ross shines a bright light on this world and the end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.-From publisher description Minimalist music has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Yet the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Modern musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences.
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