The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
| Book | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century |
| Publisher | Picador |
| First Published by | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Charlotte Strick |
| Designed by | Michelle McMillian |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 2007 |
| Pages / Font | 695 pages |
| ISBN 10 | 0-312-42771-9 |
| ISBN 13 | 978-0-312-42771-9 |
| Barcode | 9 780312 427719 51800 |
| Chapters | 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 and Reading Acknowledgments Index |
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