The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
- Picador 2007
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PART I: 1900 to 1933: The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Siecle p.3, Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality p.36, Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz p.80, Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington p.130, Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness if Jean Sibelius p.171, City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties p.194, PART II: 1933 to 1945: The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin's Russia p.235, Music for All: Music in FDR's America p.284, Death Fugue: Music in Hitler's Germany p.333, PART III: 1933 to 1945: Zero Hour: The U.S.Army and German Music, 1945 to 1949 p.373, Brave New World: The Cold War and the Avant Garde of the Fifties p.386, Grimes! Grimes! : The Passion of Benjamin Britten p.447, Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti and the Avant Garde of the Sixties p.483, Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists p.515, Suken Cathedrals: Music at Century’s End Epilogue p.589