Description: I: INTRODUCTION. 1. Twentieth-Century Music and the Past. II: THE BREAKDOWN OF TRADITIONAL TONALITY. 2. The Sources. 3. The Revolution: Paris. 4. The Revolution: Vienna. III: THE NEW TONALITIES. 5. Stravinsky and Neo-Classicism. 6. Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality in France. 7. Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality Outside of France. 8. National Styles. 9. Musical Theater. IV: ATONALITY AND TWELVE-TONE MUSIC. 10. The Viennese School. 11. The Diffusion of Twelve-Tone Music. V: THE AVANT GARDE. 12. Introduction: Before World War II. 13. Technological Culture and Electronic Music. 14. Ultra-Rationality and Serialism. 15. Anti-Rationality and Aleatory. 16. The New Performed Music: The United States. 17. Post-Serialism: The New Performance Practice in Europe. VI: POST-MODERNISM. 18. Beyond Modern Music. 19. Back to Tonality. 20. Pop as Culturer. 21. Media and Theater.

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