Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Joseph Auner is Chair and Professor of Music at Tufts University. His publications include A Schoenberg Reader, The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg (with Jennifer Shaw), and Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought (with Judith Lochhead). A past editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Auner is the recipient of grants from the Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 1903–1908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

• Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3, fourth movement Claude Debussy, Estampes, Pagodes Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire, No. 1, Mondestrunken Alban Berg, Wozzeck, Act 3, Scene 3 Charles Ives, Symphony No. 4, first movement Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Introduction Kurt Weill, Lindbergh’s Flight, Introduction of the Pilot Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms, second movement Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G, first movement Arnold Schoenberg, Piece for Piano, Op. 33a Anton Webern, Symphony Op. 21, second movement Béla Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste, first movement Aaron Copland, Billy the Kid, “Street in a Frontier Town” William Grant Still, Africa, second movement, Land of Romance Benjamin Britten, War Requiem, Requiem aeternam Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8, third movement Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maitre, No. 5, Bel Édifice Et Les Pressentiments Pauline Oliveros, Traveling Companions Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds (1970), excerpt Kaija Saariaho, Noa Noa György Ligeti, Continuum for Harpsichord Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 5: Introduction, Giocoso, Interlude, first movement George Crumb, Vox Balanae, excerpt Chen Yi, Ba Ban Steve Reich, Violin Phase John Adams, Doctor Atomic, Act 1, Scene 3, “Batter My Heart”