Music Since 1960

Duckworth = Duckworth, William. Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and 5 Generations of American Experimental Composers . Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780306808937.

Ford = Ford, Andrew. Composer to Composer: Conversations About Contemporary Music . Australia, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1994. ISBN: 9781863734431.

Griffiths = Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945 . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780198165118.

New sounds = Griffiths, Paul. New Sounds, New Personalities: British Composers of the Nineteen Eighties . London, UK: Faber & Faber, 1985. ISBN: 9780571100613.

Rockwell = Rockwell, John. All American Music: Composition in the Late 20th Century . New York, NY: Vintage/Knopf Publishing Group, 1984. ISBN: 9780394722467.

Schwartz and Childs = Schwartz, Elliott, and Barney Childs. Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music . 2nd ed (reprint). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780306808197.

Schwartz and Godfrey = Schwartz, Elliott, and Daniel Godfrey. Music Since 1945: Issues, Materials and Literature . Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 1993. ISBN: 9780028730400.

Simms = Simms, Bryan. Composers on Modern Musical Culture . New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780028647517.

Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire (1912), Variations for Orchestra (1928)

Alban Berg: Five Orchestral Songs (Altenberg-Lieder) (1912), Wozzeck (1922), Lulu (1935)

Anton Webern: Slow Movement for String Quartet (1905), Six Bagatelles for String Quartet (1913), Piano Variations (1936)

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913), The Rake’s Progress (1951)

Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (1917)

Béla Bartók: Music for Strings , Percussion, and Celesta (1936)

Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940)

Edgard Varèse: Hyperprism (1923)

_Pierre Boulez: Structures I (1952), Le marteau sans maître (1954)

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge (1956), Zyklus (1959)

Edgard Varèse: Poème électronique (1958)

Iannis Xenakis: Metastasis (1954)

Ralph Shapey: Incantations (1961)

Luigi Nono: Canti di vita e d’amore (1962)

Igor Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles (1965-66) Griffiths. pp. 70-99 and 104-115.

Elliott Carter: A Mirror on which to Dwell (1975)

Iannis Xenakis: Pleïades (1979)

Charles Wuorinen: Capriccio (1981) Ford. pp. 1-9 (Carter).

Brian Ferneyhough: Intermedio alla ciccona (1986)

Pierre Boulez: Sur incises (1996-98) Ford. pp. 17-28 (Boulez), 137-146 (Stockhausen), and 147-155 (Ferneyhough).

György Ligeti: Atmosphères (1961)

Witold Lutoslawski: Trois poèmes d’Henri Michaux [Three poems by Henri Michaux] (1963)

Karel Husa: Music for Prague (1968)

Giacinto Scelsi: Khoom (1962)

Harry Partch: And on the Seventh Day Petals fell in Petaluma (1964) Griffiths. pp. 100-101, 134-136, and 254-256.

_György Kurtág: Messages of the Late R.V. Trussova (1976-80)

Harrison Birtwistle: Secret Theatre (1984) Ford. pp. 51-59 (Birtwistle).

György Ligeti: Selected Études for Piano Solo (1985-)

Henri Dutilleux: Mystère de l’instant (1989)

Harrison Birtwistle: Selected movements from Harrison’s Clocks (1997-98) Duckworth. pp. 29-51 (Nancarrow).

Milton Babbitt: Phonemena (1969-70)

Luciano Berio: Sequenza III (1966)

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms no. 3 (1965)

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms no. 6 (1970) Duckworth. pp. 3-28 (Cage), and pp.52-93 (Babbitt).

Schwartz and Godfrey. pp. 120-134 (survey of electronic music, ca. 1960-1985), and pp. 411-412 (Cage).

Pierre Boulez: Répons (1981-84)

George Benjamin: Antara (1985-87)

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms no. 9 (1988) Griffiths. pp. 310-312 (Benjamin), and 318-320 (Boulez).

Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings (1985)

Tristan Murail: Allégories (1989)

Joan La Barbara: Shamansong (1992)

Luciano Berio: Sinfonia (1968)

Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) Griffiths. pp. 160-170 (Quotation, Berio, Stockhausen).

Leonard Bernstein: Mass (1971)

HK Gruber: Frankenstein!! (1971-78)

William Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and Experience (1981-84) Schwartz and Godfrey. pp. 259 (Gruber), and 306-307 (Bernstein).

John Harbison: November 19, 1828 (1988)

John Zorn: Cat-o’-nine-tails (1988)

Osvaldo Golijov: Ayre (2004) Griffiths. pp. 252-254 (Schnittke).

Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (1976)

Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1976)

John Adams: Shaker Loops (1978)

King Crimson [Robert Fripp et al.]: Discipline (1981)

Laurie Anderson: United States, parts I-IV (1981) Ford. pp. 61-67 (Reich).

Louis Andriessen: De staat (1972-74)

Arvo Pärt: Berlin Mass (1992)

John Adams: Nixon in China (1985-87) Ford. pp. 79-85 (Andriessen).

Michael Torke: Adjustable Wrench (1987)

Elena Ruehr: Shimmer (1994)

Julia Wolfe: Lick (1994)

Evan Ziporyn: Partial Truths (1997)

John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls (2002)

Brian Robison: The Congress of the Insomniacs (2003) Griffiths. pp. 274-275 (minimalism).

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem (1961)

George Rochberg: String Quartet no. 3 (1972)

David Del Tredici: Final Alice (1976)

Joan Tower: Petroushskates (1980)

Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (1986) Rockwell. pp. 71-83 (Del Tredici).

Stephen Albert: Symphony: RiverRun (1983)

Astor Piazzolla: Hora cero (1965), Sex-tet (1989)

Ellen Taafe Zwilich: Clarinet Quintet (1990)

John Corigliano: Symphony no. 1 (1990) Ford. pp. 11-16 (Zwilich).

Aaron Jay Kernis: Still Movement with Hymn (1993)

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (1994)

Jennifer Higdon: Running the Edge (1996)

Peter Child: Fantasia (2003)

Charles Shadle: The Penny Ballad of Elvious Ricks (2005)

Griffiths, Paul. Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945 . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780198165118.

Duckworth, William. Talking Music: Conversations with John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and 5 Generations of American Experimental Composers . Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780306808937.