Surveys

Glenn Watkins. Soundings: Music in the Twentieth Century. New York: Schirmer Books. ©1988.
Recommended for its relating of music to other art movements.
Eric Salzman.  Twentieth-Century Music:  An Introduction, third edition.  Englewood Clifss, NJ:  Prentice Hall, c1988.
Paul Griffiths.  Modern Music:  A concise history, Revised edition.  New York:  Thames and Hudson, c1994.
  Glenn Watkins. Pyramids at the Louvre : Music, Culture, and cCllage from Stravinsky to the Postmodernists.  Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.

Music

  Lawrence Kramer. Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995.
  Jonathan Bellman, ed. The Exotic in Western Music.Boston: Northeastern University Press, c1998.
  Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh, eds. Western Music and Its Others. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000.
  David Brackett. Interpreting Popular Music. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995, 2000.
  Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Music and Discourse; Toward a Semiology of Music. Carolyn Abbate, trsl. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1990.

Readings

Bryan R. Simms, ed.  Composers on Modern Musical Culture.  New York:  Schirmer Books, 1999.
Source Readings in Music History.  Oliver Strunk, ed.  Revised Edition, Leo Treitler, General Ed., Volume 6, The Ninettenth Century.  Ruth A. Solie, ed.  New York:  W. W. Notron & Company, c1998.
Source Readings in Music History.  Oliver Strunk, ed.  Revised Edition, Leo Treitler, General Ed., Volume 7, The Twentieth Century.  Robert P. Morgan, ed.  New York:  W. W. Notron & Company, c1998.
Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music:  A Continuing Symposium.  Selected and annotated by Richard Kostelanetz and joseph Darby.  New York:  Schirmer Books, c1996.
Rock Recall, Annotated Readings in American Popular Music from the Emergence of Rock and Roll to the Demise of the Woodstock Nation.  Michael J. Budds & Marian M. Ohman, selection, Commenyary & Design/  Needham Heights, MA:  Ginn Press, c1993.
 
 

Composers and Subject - in order of 170S course outline

I. The END of ART/Decadence in Europe

Wagner

  William O. Cord.  An Introduction to Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, A Handbook.  Athens, Ohio:  Ohio University Press, c1983.
  Mary A. Cicora.  Mythology as Metaphor, Romantic irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's Ring.  Westport, CN:  Greenwood Press, c1998.
H. Ashton Ellis, trsl.  Wagner on Music and Drama.  New York:  E.P. Dutton  & Co., IInc, 1064.
Wagner on Music and Drama, A compendium of Richard Wagner's prose works.  Albert Goldman and Evert Princhorn, eds.  H. Ashton Ellis, trsl.  New York:  E. P. Dutton., Inc, 1964.

Mahler

Deryck Cooke.  Gustav Mahler, An Introduction to his Music.  Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press, c1980, 1988.

Peter Russell.  Light in Battle with Darkness:  Mahler's Kindertotenlieder.  Bern:  Peter Land, c1991.

Strauss

Bryan Gilliam, Editor.  Richard Strauss, New Perspectives on the Composer and His Work.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 1992

II.  Incursions from the rest of the world - 1880-1920

Spirituals

Jon Cruz.  Culture on the Margins:  the Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, c1999.
John Storm Roberts.  Black Music of Two Worlds:  African, Caribbean, Latin, and African-American Traditions. New York:  Schirmer Books, c1998  (originally published 1972)
 

Ragtime:  Scott Joplin

John Edward Hasse.  Ragtime:  its History, Composers, and Music.  New York:  Schirmer Books, c1985.

Charles Ives

Charles Ives and the Classical Tradition.  Geoffrey Block and J. Peter Burkhalter, eds.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, c1996.
J. Peter Burkholder, ed.  Charles Ives and His World.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, c1996.
J. Peter Burkholder.  All Made of Tunes, Charles Ives and the Uses of Musical Borrowing.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, c1995
 

Russian roots:  Moussorgsky

III.  Paris in all the arts - 1900-1920

Javanese Music

Debussy

Richard Langham Smith.  Debussy Studies.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, c1997.
Richard S. Parks.  The Music of Claude Debussy.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, c1989.

The Ballets Russes

  Ballets Russes.  London:  The Apple Press, c1989.

Stravinsky

Stravinsky Retrospectives.  Ethan Haimo and Paul Johnson, ed.  Lincoln:  Universit of Nebraska Press, c1987.
Jonathan Cross.  The Stravinsky Legacy. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, c1998.
Richard Taruskin.  Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, two volumes.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, c1996.
Joan Pasler.  Debussy, Stravinsky, and the Ballets Russes:  The Emergence of a New Musical Logic. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1981.

IV.  Vienna - 1900-1920 - arts, culture, psychology

Schoenberg

  Jonathan Dunsby.  Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, c1982.
  Walter B. Bailey, ed.  The Schoenberg Companion.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, c1998.
  Walter Frisch.  Schoenberg and his World.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, c1999.
  Walter Frisch.  The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, c1993.

V.  Working out the implications - 1920-1950

Webern

  Webern Studies.  Kathryn Bailey, ed.  Cambridge U Press, c1996

Berg, Wozzeck

Jazz

  Joachim E. Berendt.  The Jazz Book, from Ragtime to Fusian and Beyond. Revised by Guenther Huesmann.  H. and B. Bredigkeit with Dan Morgenstern and Tim Nevill, trsl.  Brooklyn: Lawrence Hill Books, c1992.
  Ted Gioia.  The History of Jazz.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1997

Ellington

  John Edward Hasse.  Beyond Category:  The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, c1993.
  Ken Rattenbury. Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer.  London:  Yale University Press, c1990
  Mark Tucker, ed.  The Duke Ellington Reader.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1993.

Gershwin

  Wayne Schneider, ed.  The Gershwin Style.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1999.

Musicals

  Joseph P. Swain.  The Broadway Musical; a Critical and Musical Survey.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1990.
  Denny Martin Flinn.  Musical!  A Grand Tour.  New York:  Schirmer Books, c1997

Bartok

  Erno Lendvai.  Bela Bartok, An Analysis of His Music.  London:  Kahn & Averill, c1971, 1979.
  Bartok and His World.  Peter Laki, ed.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, c1995.
  Paul Wilson.  The Music of Bela Bartok.  New Haven:  Yale Uiversity Press, 1992.
 

Messiaen

Anthony Pople.  Messiaen:  _Quatuor pour la fin du Temps_  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, c1998

VI.  Music in the Age of Anxiety:  1950+

Total control

The machine - Electronic music

Predecessors - Varese

Boulez

Orientations:  Collected Writings by Pierre Boulez.  Jean-Nacques nattiez, ed.  Martin Cooper, trsl.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1986.

Bop

Rock and Roll History

Charles T. Brown.  The Art of Rock and Roll, Third Edition.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, c1992.  A textbook
  Paul Friedlander.  Rock and Roll, a Social History.  Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, c1996.
  Neil Nehring.  Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism.  London:  Sage Puiblications, 1997

VII.  Broadening - 1960s

The Dawning of the Age of Acquarius - 1970s-1980s

  Rock Recall, Annotated Readings in American Popular Music from the Emergence of Rock and Roll to the Demise of the Woodstock Nation.  Michael J. Budds & Marian M. Ohman, selection, Commenyary & Design/  Needham Heights, MA:  Ginn Press, c1993.

Cage

  David Revill.  The Roaring Silence; John Cage:  A Life.  New York:  Arcade Publishing, c1992
 

Ligeti

  Paul Griffiths.  Gyorgy Ligeti.  The Contemporary Composers.  Sr Ed Nicholas Snowman.  London: Robson Books, c1983.

Reich

  Steve Reich.  Writings about Music.  NY:  NYU Pr, c1974.

VII.  Continuity vs Change in Post-Modernism - 1980s-1990s

 

 
 
 
 
 

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