The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross.
Author: Ross, Alex, 1968-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
ISBN: 9780374249397 (hardcover)
0374249393 (hardcover)
Description: xiv, 624 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Music 20th century History and criticism.
Contents: pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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.
