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Arved Ashby on Mahler and his Seventh Symphony
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Mark DeVoto on "The Debussy sound: colour, texture, gesture"
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Arnold Schoenberg, Excerpts from “New Music: My Music,” from Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg, ed. Leonard Stein, transl. Leo Black (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975).
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Amanda Bayley, Excerpt from “The String Quartets and works for chamber orchestra,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bartók, edit. Amanda Bayley (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 151-53; 160-63; 169-171.
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Intro to Music 40D and Mahler
Strauss and the Alpensinfonie
Debussy and La Mer
Ravel and L'Enfant
Early Stravinsky
Early Schoenberg
Webern
Berg
Bartók
Janácek
Ives and Cowell
Twelve-tone, Berg and Webern
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Britten and Beyond
Ton De Leeuw, Music of the Twentieth Century
Decoding the music masterpieces: Strauss's An Alpine Symphony
Willi Reich,"A Guide to Alban Berg’s Opera Wozzeck," in Modern Music (1931))
Walter Bailey,"Arnold Schoenberg," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002)
James Siddons,"Anton Webern," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002
Peter Platt, "Alban Berg," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002
Willi Reich,"A Guide to Alban Berg’s Opera Wozzeck," in Modern Music (1931))
Walter Bailey,"Arnold Schoenberg," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002)
James Siddons,"Anton Webern," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002
Peter Platt, "Alban Berg," in Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002
Nicholas Slonimsky, "Ives Musical Rebel," from Writings on Music
Malcolm Gillies,"Béla Bartók," Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. Larry Sitsky (Bloomsbury, 2002)
Paul Wingfield,"Leoš Janáček," Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde.
Donald Walker,"Charles Edward Ives," Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde.