Music Since the First World War

This survey of the most significant modern composers and their techniques has become a standard work on the constantly shifting musical developments during the greater part of the twentieth century. In a concise and accessible narrative Whittall examines the continued but declining commitment to tonality twelve-note serialism and the gradual emergence of new aesthetic attitudes and concepts of musical form. Introduction -- Pt. 1 The survival of -- Symphonic music Nielsen Sibelius Vaughan Williams and others -- Béla Bartók -- Igor Stravinsky -- Symphony music Hindemith Prokofiev Shoskatovich and others -- Richard Strauss Weill Janácek Prokofiev Britten and others -- Pt. 2 Twelve-note -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Alban Berg -- Anton Webern -- The spread of Stravinsky Sessions Gerhard Dallapiccola Babbitt -- Pt. 3 From past to -- The radical Satie Varèse Cage and others -- Three Tippett Messiaen Carter -- Seven Lutoslawski Xenakis Ligeti Berio Boulez Henze Stockhausen.