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The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century
- Title
- The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross.
- Author
- Ross, Alex, 1968-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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- Description
- xiv, 624 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-593), discography (p. [595]), and index.
- Contents
- 1900-1933. The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de siècle ; Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality ; Dance of the earth : the Rite, the folk, le jazz ; Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington ; Apparition from the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius ; City of nets : Berlin in the twenties -- 1933-1945. The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia ; Music for all : music in FDR's America ; Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany -- 1945-2000. Zero hour : the U.S. army and German music, 1945-1949 ; Brave new world : the Cold War and the avant-garde of the fifties ; "Grimes! Grimes!" : the passion of Benjamin Britten ; Zion park : Messiaen, Ligeti, and the avant-garde of the sixties ; Beethoven was wrong : bop, rock, and the minimalists ; Sunken cathedrals : music at century's end.
- Call Number
- JME 07-1049
- ISBN
- 9780374249397 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0374249393 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007004504
- OCLC
- 82172875
- Author
- Ross, Alex, 1968-
- Title
- The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-593), discography (p. [595]), and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JME 07-1049