Great Music of the 20th Century

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Professor Biography Course Scope Lecture 1—20th‑Century Music: Be Afraid No Longer! Lecture 2—Setting the Table and Parsing Out Blame Lecture 3—Debussy and le français in Musical Action Lecture 4—Russia and Igor Stravinsky Lecture 5—Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Lecture 6—The Paradox of Arnold Schoenberg Lecture 7—The Emancipation of Melody! Lecture 8—The Second Viennese School Lecture 9—The “New” Classicism Lecture 10—Schoenberg and the Twelve‑Tone Method Lecture 11—Synthesis and Nationalism: Béla Bartók Lecture 12—America’s Musical Gift Lecture 13—American Iconoclasts Lecture 14—The World Turned Upside Down Lecture 15—Electronic Music and European Ultraserialism Lecture 16—Schoenberg In Exile Lecture 17—Stravinsky in America Lecture 18—For Every Action an Equal Reaction Lecture 19—The California Avant‑Garde Lecture 20—Rock around the Clock Lecture 21—East Meets West; South Meets North Lecture 22—Postmodernism: New Tonality and Eclecticism Lecture 23—The New Pluralism Lecture 24—Among Friends Performance and Text URLs Bibliography Image Credits