Title:	The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century / Alex Ross.
Edition:	1st ed.
Author:	Ross, Alex, 1968-
Summary:	A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. In The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, music critic of the New Yorker, gives us a riveting tour of the wild landscape of twentieth-century classical music: portraits of individuals, cultures, and nations reveal the predicament of the composer in a noisy, chaotic century. Taking as his starting point a production of Richard Strauss's Salome, conducted by the composer on 16 May 1906 with Puccini, Schoenberg, Berg and Adolf Hitler seated in the stalls, Ross suggests how this evening can be considered the century's musical watershed rather the riotous premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seven years later. Ross goes on to explore the mythology of modernism, Sibelius and the music of small countries, Kurt Weill, the music of the Third Reich, Britten, Boulez and the post-war avant-garde, and interactions between minimalist composers and rock bands in the sixties and seventies.
Publisher:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Holdings:	Items are held at the following locations: Library Call No Item Type Current Location Central Library  780.904 ROS  Book  First Floor  Bishopdale Library  780.904 ROS  Book  Nonfiction  Fendalton Library  780.904 ROS  Book  Nonfiction  Papanui Library  780.904 ROS  Book  Nonfiction  South Library  780.904 ROS  Book  Nonfiction  Upper Riccarton  780.904 ROS  Book  Nonfiction
Subject(s) :	Music--20th century--History and criticism.
Description:	xiv, 624 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-593) and index. Includes discography: p. [595]. 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.
ISBN:	9781841154756 9780374249397 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374249393 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781841154763 (Harper : pbk.)
DBCN:	ocm82172875

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