by Alex Ross
Waits, Tom
Waldorf-Astoria conference (1949), see Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace
Walker, Junior: “Shotgun,”
Wallace, Henry, “Century of the Common Man,”
Walsh, Stephen
Walter, Bruno
Walton, Chris
Walton, William: First Symphony
Warhol, Andy
Warsaw Autumn festival
Waters, Ethel
Watkins, Glenn
Waxman, Franz
Webern, Amalie
Webern, Anton, atonality and, Five Pieces for Orchestra, in Hitler’s Germany, Im Sommerwind
musical background of, Quartet for violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone, and piano,, as Schoenberg’s pupil, Second, Cantata, Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Six Pieces for Orchestra, String Trio, Symphony, twelve-tone music of, Variations for, Orchestra, Variations for Piano
Wedekind, Frank, Earth Spirit, Pandora’s Box
Weill, Kurt, and Brecht, as Busoni’s student, in California, The Common Glory, Davy Crockett, dispute with Schoenberg, The Eternal Road, Johnny Johnson, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark, “Mack the Knife,” Mahagonny Songspiel “On the Gestic Character of Music,”, The Protagonist, Railroads on Parade, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Royal Palace The Threepenny Opera, The Tsar Has Himself Photographedm, The, Yes-Sayer
Weimar Republic, cultural life of, Nazism and
Weininger, Otto, Sex and Character
Weisgal, Meyer
Weiss, Milton
Welles, Orson, Citizen Kane
Wellesz, Egon
Werbeck, Walter
Werfel, Franz
Weschler, Lawrence
Wesendonck, Mathilde
West Side Story (Bernstein)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Whiteman, Paul, and premiere of, Rhapsody in Blue
Whitney Museum
Who
whole-tone scale
Wiéner, Jean
Wilde, Oscar, Salomé
Wilder, Billy
Wilhelm II, Kaiser
Williams, Hank
Wilson, Olly
Wilson, Robert
Wilson, Woodrow
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Wolf, Hugo
Wolfe, Julia
Wolfes, Felix
Wolff, Christian
Wolpe, Stefan, First Piano Sonata, Zeus und Elida
Wolzogen, Ernst von
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
Wooding, Sam
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893
World War I
World War II, composers’ experiences in
Woyzeck, Johann Christian
Wozzeck, (Berg)
WPA, see Works Progress Administration
Wuorinen, Charles
Wu Zuqiang
Xenakis, Iannis, Metastaseis, Pithoprakta, in World, War II
Yale Glee Club
Yale University
Yavorsky, Boris
Yeats, William Butler
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Youmans, Charles
Young, La Monte, Compositions of 1960, for Brass The Four Dreams of China, Piano Piece for David Tudor #3, The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, Trio for Strings, X for Henry Flynt
Zakharov, Vladimir
Zankel Hall
Zappa, Frank
Zazeela, Marian
Zed & Two Noughts, A, (Greenaway)
Zeisl, Eric
Zeitoper, (Now Opera)
Zemanová, Mirka
Zemlinsky, Alexander, Die See-jungfrau
Zhdanov, Andrei
Zhilyayev, Nikolai
Zhou Enlai
Zhou Long
Ziegfeld, Florenz
Ziegler, Hans Severus
Zillig, Winfried: Das Opfer
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois, Concerto for Orchestra, Requiem for a Young Poet, Die Soldaten
Zionism
Zola, Émile
Zorn, John
Zoshchenko, Mikhail
Zweig, Stefan
Table of Contents
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Preface
PART I: 1900-1933
1. The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siècle
2. Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality
3. Dance of the Earth: The Rite , the Folk, le Jazz
4. Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington
5. Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius
6. City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties
PART II: 1933-1945
7. The Art of Fear: Music for All: Music in Stalin’s Russia
8. Music in FDR’s America
9. Death Fugue: Music in Hitler’s Germany
PART III: 1945–2000
10. Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and German Music
11. Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant-Garde of the Fifties
12. “Grimes! Grimes!”: The Passion of Benjamin Britten
13. Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties
14. Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists
15. Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century’s End
Epilogue
Notes
Suggested Listening
Acknowledgments
Index
