Masterworks of 20th-Century Music

The Modern Repertory of the Symphony Orchestra

Douglas Lee

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136066900
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Sous-sujet: Musik

"Masterworks of 20 th -Century Music" introduces more than one hundred of the greatest compositions by world-renowned composer that have entered the standard orchestral repertory. The author surveyed dozens of major American orchestras to focus on those works that an average audience member is most likely to hear. Concertgoers who are intimated by the modern repertoire finally have a single resource that will help them understand and enjoy it. Like an educated guide, he walks the listener through the piece, explaining how all the elements come together to form a unified whole. This book serves the general reader interested in 20 th -century music, plus students, teachers, and scholars.

Index

Academy: of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 86, 89, 166; of Music in Budapest, 27

Accardo, Salvatore, 71

Adams, John, 1–6; Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 4–6; The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra, 3–4; Tromba lontana, 5

Addison, Joseph, 442

Adler, Guido, 465

Aeolian Hall, 155, 156, 162

Agee, James: A Death in the Family, 23; Knoxville: Summer of 1915, 23–24

Albeniz, Isaac, 132, 138, 329, 332

Aldeburgh Festival, 93

Alkan, Valentin, 311

Altenberg, Peter, 59, 65

American: Academy at Fountainbleu, 111; Ballet Theatre, 71, 82, 406–407; Civil War, 122, 214–15; culture, 111–12; music, 19, 71, 111, 113, 115, 118, 125, 133, 149, 150, 157, 205, 217, 238; musical theater, 70, 79, 80–82, 88–90; musicians, 112; orchestral literature, 115; popular music, 149, 150, 161, 163, 240; Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP), 29

Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, 38, 396

An American in Paris, 162

Andersen, Hans Christian, 404

Andrews, Edward D., 124

Anglado, Aurelio, 421

Ansermet, Ernst, 144, 398–99, 403, 407–408, 410, 421

Antonio de Alarcón, Pedro: El sombrero de tres picos, 145

Arbós, Enrique Fernández, 138, 287, 329

Argentina, 138, 169, 172; Buenos Aires, 171, 175

Arnold, Billy, 237

Aslanov, A. P., 279

Association: des Amis de la Danse, 102; of Comtemporary Musicians, 346; of Friends of Music of Buenos Aires, 171

atonality, 63, 247

Aubert, Louis, 340

Augusteo Orchestra, 8

Auric, Georges, 259

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 327

avant-garde, 182, 239, 307

B. Schotts Söhne, 186, 388, 395, 457–58

Bach, J. S., 263, 366, 378, 389–90, 393, 394, 396, 397, 464, 466; Brandenburg ...