MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY provides an effective introduction to modern music using clear, comprehensive language. The author weaves together history, theory, and analysis to bring to life both the stylistic evolution of music since 1900 and the new principles by which this music is organized.

Music of the Twentieth Century: Style & Structure

Arts & Photography

Simms, Bryan R.

Music

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Music of the Twentieth Century: Style and Structure

Schirmer Books

Twentieth-century music is explored from both a historical and a theoretical perspective in this enlightening text. Bryan R. Simms addresses style and structure with equal care as he chronicles the evolution of music from the time of Schoenberg to the work of such current composers as Schnittke and Gorecki. Throughout the book, Simms focuses on a number of influential compositions, examining 107 major works in depth as vivid representatives of music in our time.

Music of the Twentieth Century: An Anthology

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Alban Berg (1885-1935), a student of Arnold Schoenberg and one of the most prominent composers of the Second Viennese School, is counted among the pioneers of twelve-tone serialism. His circle included not only the musicians of the 
Wiener modern but also prominent literary and artistic figures 
from Vienna's brilliant fin-de-siècle. In his short lifetime he composed two ground-breaking operas, 
Wozzeck and 
Lulu, as well as chamber works, songs, and symphonic compositions. His final completed work, the deeply moving and elegiac Violin Concerto, is performed by leading soloists across the 
world.\nThis new life-and-works study from authors Bryan R. Simms and Charlotte Erwin delivers a fresh perspective formed from comprehensive study of primary sources that reveal the forces that shaped Berg's personality, career, and artistic outlook. One such force was Berg's wife, Helene Nahowski Berg, and 
the book provides a unique assessment of her role in the composer's life and work, as well as her later quest to shape his artistic legacy in the forty-one years of her widowhood. The authors present insightful analysis of all of Berg's major works, bringing into play Berg's own analyses of the 
music, many of which have not been considered in existing scholarship. 
Berg is an accessible and all-encompassing resource for all readers who wish to learn about the life and music of this composer, one of the great figures in modern music.\nAbout the Author \nBryan R. Simms is Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Southern California. He was formerly editor of the Journal of Music Theory and Music Theory Spectrum and has served on the Council of the American Musicological Society and Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory. He 
specializes in music and musical theory of the 20th century, and he is the editor and translator of 
Pro Mundo - Pro Domo: The Writings of Alban Berg (2014), an English edition of the complete writings of this composer.\nCharlotte Erwin retired in 2015 from the California Institute of Technology where she was head of archives and special collections. After earning her doctorate from Yale, she taught musicology at the University of Southern California, UCLA, and Occidental College and has published on Richard 
Strauss, Ernst Toch, and other German and Austrian émigré composers.

Berg (Composers Across Cultures)

Erwin, Charlotte

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

Between 1908 and 1923, Arnold Schoenberg began writing music that went against many of the accepted concepts and practices of this art. Largely following his intuition during these years, he composed some of the masterpieces of the modern repertoire--including Pierrot lunaire and Erwartung--works that have since provoked a large, though fragmented, body of critical and analytical writing. In this book, Bryan Simms combines a historical study with a close analytical reading of the music to give us a new and richer understanding of Schoenberg's seminal work during this period.

The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923

Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, modern composers living in Vienna near the turn of the 20th century, are examined in a broad artistic context illustrating how their works grew from earlier Viennese musical developments. Presenting a coherent analysis of a central school of modern musical composition, the essays compare the artists' music to that in the nonmusical arts in Vienna at the time. A prominent musical phenomenon during the period, the Second Viennese School of Music would exert a profound impact on European and American composers in the decades following World War II. The recent discoveries and critical perspectives on the composers discussed in these essays detail new information on central aspects of their work, including the origins of atonal composition, the 12-tone method, and the literary models that often inspired their works. Coherent and current, this collection of essays offers unique insight into the personalities and artistic accomplishments of these three major figures who intoduced modernism to music.
Contributing to the continuing fascination with the modern culture produced in Vienna and other European cities near the turn of the century, these clear, accessible writings on the Second Viennese School will appeal to musicians and scholars alike. Each chapter, written by a different specialist, focuses on the artistic milieu of these three composers, avoiding a particular hypothesis and offering instead a broad, multifaceted discussion. This selection of new knowledge about aspects of the composers' work complements the valuable information also detailed about their music.

Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern: A Companion to the Second Viennese School

Greenwood

Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies)

Routledge

Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer. The second edition will include research published since the publication of the first edition and provide electronic resources.

Alban Berg (Routledge Music Bibliographies)

Prepared by Timothy Roden of Ohio Wesleyan University, the workbook helps students maximize their study time with a set of analytical questions for each musical selection in the CD set and Anthologies as well as Sterling Murray's guide to researching and writing about music.

Workbook for Wright/Simms’ Music in Western Civilization

Wright, Craig

Cengage Learning'

Includes 5 CDs covering chapters 52 through 83.

Music in Western Civilization: Chapters 52-83

History

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