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Ives music is a cultural sourcebook of AMerica at the turn of the century. Ives took the evangelical hymns, the college songs, the melodies of the dance hall, the tunes of small town bands, and the sounds of village life, shaped them according to his Transcendentalist veiw of the natural world, and turned them into fresh musical works wich are at once familiar and of startling originality. ... Read more

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Chapters: Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, Thomas Delio, Edward T. Cone, George Russell, David Lewin, Howard Hanson, Joseph Schillinger, James Tenney, David Carson Berry, Benjamin Boretz, Benjamin C. S. Boyle, Allen Forte, Gene Ward Smith, Felix Salzer, Fred Lerdahl, David B. Doty, Carl Schachter, Roland C. Jordan, Edward Aldwell, Paul Wilson, Heidi Von Gunden, Richard Cohn. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg (pronounced ) (13 September 1874 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He used the spelling Schönberg until after his move to the United States in 1934 (Steinberg 1995, 463), "in deference to American practice" (Foss 1951, 401), though one writer claims he made the change a year earlier (Ross 2007, 45). Schoenberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American traditions have consciously extended his thinking or, in some cases, passionately reacted against it. During the rise of the Nazi party in Austria, his music was labeled, alongside jazz, as degenerate art. Schoenberg was widely known early in his career for his success in simultaneously extending the traditionally opposed German Romantic traditions of both Brahms and Wagner. Later, his name would come to personify pioneering innovations in atonality that would become the most polemical feature of 20th-century art music. In the 1920s, Schoenberg developed the twelve-tone technique, a widely influential compositional method of manipulating an ordered series of all twelve notes in the chromati...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=67025 ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more