Bibliograph

The rest is noise, listening to the twentieth century, Alex Ross

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The rest is noise, listening to the twentieth century, Alex Ross

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-593) and indexIncludes discography: p. [595]

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illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rest is noise

Nature of contents

discographiesbibliography

Oclc number

52714582172875

Responsibility statement

Alex Ross

Sub title

listening to the twentieth century

Table Of 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

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