TwentiethCentury Music An Introduction Author:Eric Salzman Writing at 2/3 the way through the 20th century, the author, a composer himself, aimed to convey "an understanding of cultural history as a history of ideas," outlining "the creative development of musical ideas ... understood against and as distinct from the past, in the variety and unity of its own internal growth and in its potential for the ... more »future."
Large section titles: Introduction; The Breakdown of Traditional Tonality; The New Tonalities; Atonality and Twelve-Tone Music; The Avant-Garde. With portraits of composers, musical examples, and full index.« less