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.

• 1. Introduction: A Sense of Possibility Part I: From the Turn of the Century to the First World War2. Expanding Musical Worlds at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3. Making New Musical Languages 4. Folk Sources, the Primitive, and the Search for AuthenticityPart II: The Interwar Years5. New Music Taking Flight after World War I 6. Paris, Neo-Classicism, and the Art of the Everyday 7. The Search for Order and Balance 8. Inventing TraditionsPart III: The Second World War and Its Aftermath9. Rebuilding amid the Ruins 10. Electronic Music from Magnetic Tape to the Internet11. Trajectories of Order and ChancePart IV: From the 1960s to the Present12. Texture, Groups, Loops, and Layers 13. Histories Recollected and Remade14. Minimalism and its Repercussions15. Border Crossings