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Index
Preface
Where to Listen
PART I: 1900–1933
1. The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siècle
2. Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality
3. Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz
4. Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington
5. Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius
6. City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties
PART II: 1933–1945
7. The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin’s Russia
8. Music for All: Music in FDR’s America
9. Death Fugue: Music in Hitler’s Germany
10. Zero Hour: The U.S. Army and
German Music, 1945–1949
11. Brave New World: The Cold War and
the Avant-Garde of the Fifties
12. “Grimes! Grimes!”: The Passion of Benjamin Britten
13. Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and
the Avant-Garde of the Sixties
14. Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists
15. Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century’s End
Epilogue
Notes
Suggested Listening
Acknowledgments
Index
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