From the Book - First Picador edition.
The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de si©·cle
Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality
Dance of the earth : the Rite, the folk, le jazz
Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington
Apparition from the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius
City of nets : Berlin in the twenties
The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia
Music for all : music in FDR's America
Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany
Zero hour : the U.S. army and German music, 1945-1949
Brave new world : the Cold War and the avant-garde of the fifties
"Grimes! Grimes!" : the passion of Benjamin Britten
Zion Park : Messiaen, Ligeti, and the avant-garde of the sixties
Beethoven was wrong : bop, rock, and the minimalists
Sunken cathedrals : music at century's end.
From the Book - First edition.
1900-1933. The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de siècle ; Doctor Faust : Schoenberg, Debussy, and atonality ; Dance of the earth : the Rite, the folk, le jazz ; Invisible men : American composers from Ives to Ellington ; Apparition from the woods : the loneliness of Jean Sibelius ; City of nets : Berlin in the twenties
1933-1945. The art of fear : music in Stalin's Russia ; Music for all : music in FDR's America ; Death fugue : music in Hitler's Germany
1945-2000. Zero hour : the U.S. army and German music, 1945-1949 ; Brave new world : the Cold War and the avant-garde of the fifties ; "Grimes! Grimes!" : the passion of Benjamin Britten ; Zion park : Messiaen, Ligeti, and the avant-garde of the sixties ; Beethoven was wrong : bop, rock, and the minimalists ; Sunken cathedrals : music at century's end.