20/20
20/20: 20 new sounds of the 20th century William Duckworth
Publisher: New York : Schirmer Books, c1999.
ISBN: 0028653297
LCC: ML197
Edition: (CD)
Notes:
Accompanying CD (Sony Music Special Products: A 30946) contains
primarily excerpts from the works discussed in the book.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-204) and index.
Twenty questions about new music -- Prelude to the afternoon of a
faun / Claude Debussy (1894) -- Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (1899)
-- The rite of spring / Igor Stravinsky (1913) -- Pierrot Lunaire /
Arnold Schoenberg (1912) -- The Concord sonata / Charles Ives
(1911-1915) -- Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin (1928) -- Bolero /
Maurice Ravel (1928) -- Quartet for the end of time / Olivier
Messiaen (1941) -- Appalachian spring / Aaron Copland (1944) --
Sonatas and interludes / John Cage (1948) -- Mysterious mountain /
Alan Hovhaness (1955) -- In C / Terry Riley (1964) -- Drumming /
Steve Reich (1971) -- I am sitting in a room / Alvin Lucier (1970) --
4th string quartet: Amazing grace / Ben Johnston (1973) -- Einstein
on the beach / Philip Glass (1976) -- Perfect lives / Robert Ashley
(1983) -- O Superman / Laurie Anderson (1983) -- Miserere / Arvo Pärt
(1989) -- Atlas / Meredith Monk (1991).
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