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SKILLS: See skills bibliography: Edlund (Modus Novus), Friedmann, Hansen, Herder, Hindemith, Sherman/
Knight, Kliewer Music Reading Vol. II, Wittlich/Humphries (ear training examples from complete pieces;
contains works by Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartók, Dallapiccola). Also see R. Murray Shafer, books from
Associated (Ear Cleaning
, Composer in the Classroom, etc.). Several other skills sources have chapters on
twentieth-century materials.
ANTHOLOGIES: See anthology bibliography: Roig-Francolí, Wennerstrom (20th-century), Simms, Morgan,
Delio/Smith. Roger Johnson (ed.), Scores (An Anthology of New Music) contains Cage, Glass, Reich, Crumb,
etc.--many examples of "new" notation. Several general anthologies have substantial units on post-1900 music.
COMPOSITION: See counterpoint listing under 20th-century: Brindle, Cope, Hindemith, Krenek, Marquis, Morris,
Wuorinen.
Other Books (Twentieth-century Sources)
Antokoletz, Elliott. Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991. Historical and analytical.
Austin, William W. Music in the 20th century: from Debussy through Stravinsky. New York, NY: W.W. Norton,
1966. Comprehensive historical survey, with many detailed analyses.
Basart, Ann P. Serial Music: A Classified Bibliography of Writings on 12-tone and electronic music. Berkeley/Los
Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1963. Annotated bibliography arranged by composer and
composition as well as by subject. Very good for writings through the early 1960's.
Brindle, Reginald Smith. The New Music: avant garde since 1945. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1987.
General trends in new music.
Cook, Nicholas and Anthony Pople, ed. The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Cope, David. New Directions in Music. 7th ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 2001. Discussion of
composers since the 2nd World War; glossary of terms and index/comments on composers..
Dallin, Leon. Techniques of Twentieth Century Composition. 3rd ed. Dubuque, IA: W.C. Brown, 1974. Chapters
on melody, rhythm/meter, harmony, 12-tone method, electronic music, etc. Short examples, with an "inventory"
of techniques and terms.
DeLio, Thomas. Circumscribing the Open Universe. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1984. Essays
exploring "open structure" in works of Cage, Feldman, Wolff, Ashley, Lucier.
DeLio, Thomas, ed. Contiguous Lines: Issues and Ideas in the Music of the '60's and '70's. Washington, DC:
University Press of America, 1985. Detailed analyses of pieces by Glass, Babbitt, Xenakis, and Ligeti, plus
general essays.
DeLone, Peter, Vernon Kliewer, Horace Reisberg, Mary Wennerstrom, Allen Winold, Gary Wittlich. Aspects of
20th-century Music. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1975. Discussions on form, timbre/texture, rhythm,
melody, vertical aspects, and sets/ordering procedures, with extensive examples.
Deri, Otto. Exploring 20th Century Music. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. Historical overview
and stylistic study, with some detailed analyses.
Duckworth, William. 20/20: New Sounds of the 20th Century. Belmont, CA: Schirmer/Thomson Learning, 1999.
20 works of the 20th century with 20 questions. With CD-ROM.
Forte, Allen. The Structure of Atonal Music. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. One of the standard
sources for set analytical procedures. See also the "Introduction" to his Harmonic Structure of the 'Rite of
Spring'.