The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of
Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's
provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its
earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume
set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the
themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to a
significant period in the history of Western music.
Music in the
Early Twentieth Century , the fourth volume in Richard Taruskin's
history, looks at the first half of the twentieth century, from the
beginnings of Modernism in the last decade of the nineteenth century
right up to the end of World War II. Taruskin discusses modernism in
Germany and France as reflected in the work of Mahler, Strauss, Satie,
and Debussy, the modern ballets of Stravinsky, the use of twelve-tone
technique in the years following World War I, the music of Charles Ives,
the influence of peasant songs on Bela Bartok, Stravinsky's
neo-classical phase and the real beginnings of 20th-century music, the
vision of America as seen in the works of such composers as W.C. Handy,
George Gershwin, and Virgil Thomson, and the impact of totalitarianism
on the works of a range of musicians from Toscanini to Shostakovich
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