- Chapters 1-8
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- The thousand anonymous sounds made when leaves are caressed by the moon winds light.
- Arnold Schoenberg's harmony, Stravinsky's rhythm, Debussy's form
- Paris - picasso/stravinsky
- Vienna - Schoenberg/ Oskar Kokoschka ( painter ) & Adolf Loos ( architect)
- Ives - Concord Sonata ( town with Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, Thoreau )
- Constructivist sound ( belief system )
- Serialism
- Maurice Maeterlinck | writer
- Strindberg | metaphysics
- German symbolists
- Carl Ruggles - most Schoenberg American composer
- Bela Bartok ( hungary folk )
- Leos Janacek ( czech)
- Smetana ( czech romantic befor janacek )
- Dvorak ( czech romantics before janacek )
- Luigi Russolo / futurist composer ( noises )
- Max Reger
- Ferruccio Busoni
- Edward Elgar
- Carl Nielsen
- Jean Sibelius
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- William Walton
- Samuel Barber
- Alban Berg
- Anton Webern
- Edgard Varèse
- Charles Ives
- Henry Cowell
- Nikolai Roslavets
- Darius Milhaud
- Alois Hába
- Julián Carrillo
- Ivan Wyschnegradsky
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Aaron Copland
- Roy Harris
- Michael Tippett
- Benjamin Britten
- Elliott Carter
- Francis Poulenc
- Arthur Honegger
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Ernst Krenek
- Hanns Eisler
- Claude Debussy - prelude a l'apres-midi du faun
- Arnold Schoenberg - Gurrelieder (1900-11
- Alexander Scriabin- Prometheus
- Claude Debussy - Jeux
- Claude Debussy - En blanc et noir
- Claude Debussy - the twelve studies
- Anton Webern - five orchestral pieces
- Bela Bartok - the Miraculous Mandarin ( response to rites of spring)
- Manuel de Falla - nights in the gardens of Spain
- Igor Stravinsky - concierto for piano and winds
- Paul Hindemith - kammermusik
- Olivier Messiaen - anti anti romntc
- Maurice Ravel - g major piano concerto '31
- Edward Elgar - cello concerto (last)
- Jean Sibelius- Tapiola ( last )
- Paul Dukas - la peri ( last )
- Igor Stravinsky - violin concerto in d '31
- Igor Stravinsky - symphony in three movements
- Bela Bartok - second piano concerto
- Arnold Schoenberg - Erwartung
- Arnold Schoenberg - die jakobsleiter
- Alban Berg - wozzeck
- Alban Berg - altenberglieder
- Alban Berg - chamber concerto
- Anton Webern - symphony 1928
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- Arnold Schoenberg - piano suite 1923
- Anton Webern - six trakl songs
- George Antheil - ballet mecanique
- Arthur Honegger - pacific 231
- Alexander Mosolov - steel ( factory ballet )
- Sergei Prokofiev - le pas d'acier
- Edgard Varèse - Ameriques
- Edgard Varèse - Ionisation ( percussion only)
- Ferruccio Busoni - sketch for a new music aesthetic
- Henry Cowell - the tides of manaunaun
- Henry Cowell - aeolian harp
- Henry Cowell - banshee
- Henry Cowell - mosaic quartet
- Carl Ruggles - suntreader
- Ruth Crawford Seeger - String Quartet
- Amadeo Roldán - ritmicas
- Harry Partch - 43 notes to the octave!!
- John Cage - first construction in metal
- Igor Stravinsky - rag time
- Darius Milhaud - la creation du monde
- Maurice Ravel - violin sonata
- Nikolai Roslavets- serialist Russian
- Alexander Mosolov - subFuturist
- Ch9 eastern influence
- Pupils of Messiaen: Pierre Boulez, Jean Barraqué, Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Colin McPhee
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Steve Reich
- Jean Barraqué
- Claude Debussy - pagodes
- John Cage - music of changes
- Olivier Messiaen - l'ascension
- Olivier Messiaen - poemes pour mi
- Olivier Messiaen - catalogue d'oiseaux
- Pierre Boulez - le marteau sans
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - mantra
- Ch10 serialism continued
- Roberto Gerhard
- Nikos Skalkottas
- Ernst Krenek - later works
- Frank Martin
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- Pierre Boulez - Structures
- Pierre Boulez - Structures Ia
- Pierre Boulez - poesie pour pouvoir
- Milton Babbitt - 3 comps for piano
- Milton Babbitt - 2nd string quartet
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kreuzspiel
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Punkte
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - gruppen
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - carré
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - momente
- Jean Barraqué - romantic of the post war era
- Jean Barraqué - Sequence
- Jean Barraqué - piano sonata
- Jean Barraqué - la mort de virgile
- Ch11 electronics
- Predecessor Varèse
- Radiodiffusion Française (Paris) musique concrete [ Schaeffer, Henry ]
- Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk ( Cologne ) electronic music [ Stockhausen ]
- Live electronic music: Sonic Arts Union ( US ), Stockhausen's ensemble, Musica Elettronica Viva (Rome),
- Computer Music: Max Matthews ( Bell Labs ) - developed Music IV software, Boulez, Hiller, Xenakis
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- Edgard Varèse - desert
- Edgard Varèse - poeme electrinique*
- Pierre Schaeffer
- Pierre Henry - symphonie pour un homme seul
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie I
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Junglinge
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
- Milton Babbitt - Ensembles for Synthesizer (62) ( electronic rhythmic serialism )
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- Milton Babbitt - Philomel (63 tape )
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikeophonie 1 ( 1st live electro )
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mixtur ( mod imprv orch )
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Prozession ( new unity* )
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kurzwellen ( process .. )
- Terry Riley - In C (64)
- PIERRE BOULEZ - repons
- PIERRE BOULEZ - 6 percussion soloists
- Lejaren Hiller - iliac suite
- Iannis Xenakis - eonta
- Chapter 12 Chance
- like minded colleagues of Cage - David Tudor, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff
- Steve Reich ( false perceptions similar to the paintings of Bridget Riley )
- John Cage - music of changes (1951)
- John Cage - imaginary landscapes
- John Cage - 4' 33" (1952)
- Pierre Boulez - le marteau sans maitre
- David Tudor
- Morton Feldman - Projections
- Earle Brown - Twenty Five Pages ( Dec 1952 )
- Christian Wolff
- György Ligeti - Atmospheres
- György Ligeti - Requiem
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Aus den sieben tagen ( goldstaub)
- Chapter 13 - theater and politics
- Opera / Britten, Tippett, Hans Werner Henze ( not avant guarde)
- Luigi Nono ( Italian communist intense )
- Mauricio Kagel (music of poverty and error)
- Collective Creative work:
- Musica Elettronica Viva (Italian) [ Sound Pool ]
- Scratch Orchestra ( British )[ formed by Cornelius Cardew]
- Luigi Nono - il canto sospeso
- Luigi Nono - Intolleranza
- Luciano Berio - allelujah ii ( for 5 orchestral groups )
- Luciano Berio - Epifanie ( 1960 )
- Luciano Berio - Circles
- Luciano Berio - Traces ( about race)
- Luciano Berio - Opera ( 1969)
- Luciano Berio - Laborintus ii ( capitalism )
- Luciano Berio - Sequenze!
- Peter Maxwell Davies - 8 songs for a mad King
- Harrison Birtwistle - Down by the greenwood side
- Harrison Birtwistle - Punch and Judy
- Mauricio Kagel - Sur scène
- Mauricio Kagel - Pas de cinq
- Mauricio Kagel - Match
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Sternklang (1971)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Trans
- Karlheinz Stockhausen - Licht* (7 days!)
- Witold Lutosławski
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Babiy Yar
- Alfred Schnittke
- Henri Pousseur - Couleurs croisees
- Hans Werner Henze - El cimarron
- Hans Werner Henze - Das langwierig Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
- Hans Werner Henze - We Come to the River
- Chapter 14 - minimalism and multiplicity
- Dmitri Shostakovich 5th Symphony was Soviet Artists reply to just criticism ( secretly reactionary 1937 )
- Louis Andriessen (dutch )heavy amplified, irregular venues, strongly pulsed, repetitive
- Arvo Pärt ( Estonia ) simple repetitive stasis
- Louis Andriessen
- Arvo Pärt
- Terry Riley - In C
- Steve Reich - Four Organs
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- Karlheinz Stockhausen- Stimmung
- La Monte Young - (NY) repetitive
- Steve Reich - Drumming
- Phillip Glass - amplified - music in 12 parts ( 1971 - 4)
- Phillip Glass - Einstein on the beach ( 1976 collar with Robert Wilson. Foray into opera )
- John Adams - Nixon in China(1987)
- Steve Reich - Telihim ( 1981 voices )
- Steve Reich - Desert Music (84 chr/orch)
- Steve Reich - the Four Sections (87 orch)
- Steve Reich - Different Trains (88 strings)
- Morton Feldman - Second String Quartet (83)
- Luigi Nono - late works
- György Kurtág - minimalism of daring
- György Kurtág - Kafka-Fragmente (85)
- Wolfgang Rihm
- Alexander von Zemlinsky
- Conlon Nancarrow - studies for player piano
- Charles Koechlin
- Lou Harrison
- Toru Takemitsu
- Elliott Carter - First String Quartet (1951)
- Elliott Carter - Double Concerto (1961)
- Elliott Carter - Concerto for Orchestra (1969)
- Harrison Birtwistle - Triumph of Time (1972)
- Harrison Birtwistle - Earth Dances (1986)
- Iannis Xenakis - Jonchaies (1977)
- Brian Ferneyhough - Etudes Transcendentales (84
- Luciano Berio - Formazioni (1987)
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Die Soldaten (58 to 64)
- George Rochberg - Contra mortem et tempus (65)
- George Rochberg - Third Quartet ( return to Mahler
- György Ligeti - Melodien (71)
- György Ligeti - Horn Trio (82)
- Dmitri Shostakovich - 5th Symphony
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