The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross

Av: Utgivning: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007Utgåva: 1. edBeskrivning: 624 s. : illISBN:
  • 978-0-374-24939-7
Ämne: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 780.904 22 (machine generated)
SAB-klassifikation:
  • Ijb.5
Innehåll:
Part 1: 1900-1933. The golden age : Mahler, Strauss, 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 in the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius ; City of nets : Berlin in the twenties -- Part 2: 1933-1945. The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia ; Music for all : music in FDR's America ; Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany -- Part3: 1945-2000. Zero hour : the U.S. Army in Germany, 1945-1949 ; Brave new world : the cold war and the avant-garde ; Grimes! Grimes! : the passion of Benjamin Britten ; Zion Park : Messiaen, Ligeti, and the avant-garde of the sixties ; Beethoven was wrong : bebop, rock, and the minimalists ; Sunken cathedrals : music at century's end
Sammanfattning: A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy, chaotic century
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Part 1: 1900-1933. The golden age : Mahler, Strauss, 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 in the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius ; City of nets : Berlin in the twenties -- Part 2: 1933-1945. The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia ; Music for all : music in FDR's America ; Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany -- Part3: 1945-2000. Zero hour : the U.S. Army in Germany, 1945-1949 ; Brave new world : the cold war and the avant-garde ; Grimes! Grimes! : the passion of Benjamin Britten ; Zion Park : Messiaen, Ligeti, and the avant-garde of the sixties ; Beethoven was wrong : bebop, rock, and the minimalists ; Sunken cathedrals : music at century's end

A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy, chaotic century

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