List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements

PART 1: UP TO 1945
1 THE BEGINNINGS
Austro-Germany: Mahler and Strauss; France: Satie and Debussy; Free Atonality; Problems of Form; Emancipation Continues; New Aspects of Timbre; Rhythm; Stravinsky's Later Russian Works; Seeds of Change; Varèse
2 NATIONALISM, FOLK MUSIC, EXOTICISM
Bartòk; England; Janáček; Spain; Popular Culture; The Exotic; South America; The Spirit of Independence - Ives and Cowell
3 SERIALISM
Schoenberg, Berg and Webern; The early work of John Cage
4 NEO-CLASSICISM
Ravel; Stravinsky; Les Six; Music of Social Conscience; Weill; Russia; America; Sibelius and Nielsen

PART 2: AFTER 1945
1 A FRESH BEGINNING
Messiaen; Messiaen's Influence; Integral Serialism; Boulez and Stockhausen; Musique Concrète and Electronic Music; The Darmstadt Legacy; Theater; Music Theater in England; The Middle Ages Revisited; Indeterminacy, Chance and Aleatoricism; Reactions; Experimentalism; Groups; English Experimental Music; The Spirit of Independence Continued; Nancarrow; Texture
2 MINIMALISM
3 POST-MINIMALISM
Adams, Torke, Bang on a Can; Totalism; Andriessen and Martland; Pärt and Others
4 RESPONSES
Tippett, Carter, Stravinsky; New Complexity; Xenakis; Spectralism
5 PIONEERS COME OF AGE
Later Feldman; Later Cage; Later Stockhausen; Revisions
6 OTHER RESPONSES
Lachenmann; Scelsi; Younger Germanic Composers
7 REFERENCE AND QUOTATION
8 OTHER CURRENTS
Macmillan, Turnage; Further uses of Jazz; Ruders; Conservatives; Younger English Composers
9 WINDS FROM THE EAST
Australia
10 THE CRISIS OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Notes
Suggested Further Reading
Index