New ears for new music [ Texto impreso] / Constantin Floros ; translated by Kenneth Chalmers.

Traducción aumentada del original en alemán: "Neue Ohren für Neue Musik Mainz: Schott Music, 2006"

From Expressionism to Experiment. Directions and Tendencies in New Music -- Arnold Schoenberg. Revolutionary, Humanist and Visionary -- "Music is not to be Decorative; it is to be True". Towards and Aesthetic of the Second Viennese School -- The Problem of "German Music" -- The Fate of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg after 1933 -- Two Unknown Letters by Schenberg and Berg -- Beethoven and the Schoenberg School -- Principles of Vocal Composition -- Schoenberg's Gurrelieder -- The Melodramas of Pierrot lunaire -- "God's Eternity Opposes the Transience of Idols". On Schoenberg's Moses and Aron -- Nationalism and Folklorism -- Nikos Skalkottas. A Schoenberg Pupil in Berlin -- Beyond Schoenberg and Debussy. Nikos Skalkottas's 32 Piano Pieces -- A Conversation with Luigi Nono -- Olivier Messiaen's "Theological Music" -- Pierre Boulez's Masterpiece Le Marteau sans maître -- Fascinated by the Music of Ligeti -- Ligeti's Hölderlin-Phantasien. A letter from the Composer -- Iridescent Sound -- "Folklore in Serious Music is a Lie". Ligeti's Relationship with Béla Bartók -- Multicultural Phenomena in the New Music -- "A Music of the Whole Earth, All Countries and Races". Karlheinz Stockhausen's Utopia of World Music -- The Philosophy of Time and Pluralistic Thought of Bern Alois Zimmermann -- Alfred Schnittke and Polystylism -- And Always for a Better World. Approaches to Hans Werner Henze -- So-called Postmodernism -- "No Artist Works at a Distance from Humanity". In Praise of Wolfgang Rihm -- Notes -- Selective Bibliography -- List of Music Examples and Illustrations

"20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century’s intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist and author Constantin Floros provides a survey of the different styles and tendencies in new music, presenting the most important composers from Schoenberg to Rihm in a series of fluent and readable essays that will appeal to connoisseurs and non-specialists alike. For Floros, music and biography are inseparable, and here he puts music in the context of the social and psychological background of its time." (cubierta posterior)