Research Catalog

Title

Music since 1900 / Nicolas Slonimsky.

Author

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c1937.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grove, George, 1820-1900.
• Riemann, Hugo, 1849-1919.
• Moser, Hans Joachim, 1889-1967.

Description

xxii, 592 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

A dictionary of modern music and musicians.

Subjects

• Music > Bio-bibliography
• Dance > History > 20th century
• Dance > Chronology
• Music > Chronology
• Music > 20th century > History and criticism

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 437-438.

Processing Action (note)

• Mass deacidification

Contents

• Pt. I. Descriptive chronology, 1900-1937 -- pt. II. Concise biographical dictionary of twentieth-century musicians. Corrections and additions to Hull's Dictionary of modern music and musicians. Corrections and additions to Grove's Dictionary of music and musicians. Corrections and additions to Riemann's Musik-Lexikon. Corrections and additions to H.J. Moser's Musik-lexikon -- pt. III. Letters and documents: Motu proprio of Pope Pius X on sacred music. The black list of disapproved music. Three anti-modernist poems: 1884, 1909, 1924. The art of noises. Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna (a statement of aims). Music and the classes (the ideological platform of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians) Futurist manifesto of aeromusic. History of the Dalcroze method of eurythmics. Letter from George Bernard Shaw. Letter from the president of the Composers' League in Japan.
• What is atonality? (A radio talk by Alban Berg). Gebrauchsmusik and Gemeinschaftsmusik. Letter from Arnold Schoenberg on the origin of the twelve-tone system.

Call Number

*MFBL (Slonimsky, N. Music since 1900. 1937)

LCCN

37039091

OCLC

599401

Author

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995.

Title

Music since 1900 / Nicolas Slonimsky.

Imprint

New York : W.W. Norton, c1937.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 437-438.

Local Note

Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Local Subject

Dance -- History -- 20th century.

Dance -- Chronology.

Added Author

Grove, George, 1820-1900. Grove's dictionary of music and musicians.

Riemann, Hugo, 1849-1919. Hugo Riemanns musik lexikon.

Moser, Hans Joachim, 1889-1967. Musik Lexikon.

Added Title

A dictionary of modern music and musicians.

Research Call Number

*MFBL (Slonimsky, N. Music since 1900. 1937)