The rest is noise: listening to the twentieth century

Preface --

pt. 1. 1900-1933 --

1. The golden age : Strauss, Mahler, and the fin de siecle --

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 --

pt. 2. 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 --

pt. 3. 1945-2000 --

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 --

Acknowledgments --

Index.