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The Rest Is Noise
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The Rest Is Noise (2008) (edit title/settings)

Listening to the Twentieth Century

by Alex Ross (Author) (edit contributors)

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The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, the influence of... read more

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Cuando Richard Strauss dirigiió su ópera Salomé el 16 de mayo de 1906, en la ciudad austríaca de Graz, se dieron cita varios próceres de la música europea para ser testigos del acontecimiento.

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I. Preface
II. Where to listen

Part I: 1900-1933
1. The Golden Age
2. Doctor Faust
3. The Dance of the Earth
4. Invisible Men
5. Apparition from the Woods
6. City of Nets

Part II: 1933-1945
7. The Art of Fear
8. Music for All
9. Death Fugue

Part III: 1945-2000
10. Zero Hour
11. Brave New World
12. "Grimes! Grimes!"
13. Zion Park
14. Beethoven Was Wrong
15. Sunken Cathedrals

Notes
Suggested Listening
Acknowledgment
Index

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This book is in Words and Music: Our Favorite 60 Music Books (Pitchfork). (authoritative list)

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  1. Alex Ross (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Country: United States
Publication Date: October 2008
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Page Count: 695

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