MUSIC

This is a list of most of the pieces featured in The Rest is Noise, in (roughly) the order that they appear in the book. It pro
I've added a few extras as well, but feel free to cross-reference it with the book's own index yourself. The boxes on the le
keeping track of which pieces you have, and which you've listened to - you could use colour coding, or ticks and crosses
included a column of suggested recordings, but please keep in mind that they are just that - suggestions - they are my p
definitive or objective in any way. I'm also still working through the list myself, so the list of suggestions is not complete.
every piece listed here is hugely important in the context of the book, and many are just mentioned in passing.

CHAPTER ONE - THE GOLDEN AGE

Wagner - Parsifal
Wagner - Tannhuser
Wagner - Tristan
Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius
Rimsky - The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
Chabrier - Espaa
Faur - Requiem
Satie - Gymnopdies
Strauss - Don Juan
Strauss - Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Strauss - Ein Heldenleben
Strauss - Elektra
Ach du lieber, Augustin
Mahler - Symphony No. 6 [compare 1st theme with Schubert D784]
Strauss - Symphonia domestica
Puccini - Manon Lescaut
Puccini - Tosca
Puccini - Madama Butterfly
Puccini - Fanciulla del West
Elgar - Sea Pictures
Busoni - Berceuse lgiaque
Mahler - Symphony No. 10
Strauss - Alpine Symphony

CHAPTER TWO - DOCTOR FAUST

Busoni - Doktor Faust

Liszt - Bagatelle sans tonalit
Debussy - Prlude l'aprs-midi d'un faune
Debussy - Pellas et Mlisande
Debussy - La Mer
Debussy - Prludes Book 1
Debussy - Estampes
Debussy - Images [for orchestra]
Debussy - Images [for piano]
Satie - Le fils des toiles
Debussy - Nocturnes
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire
Schoenberg - Verklrte Nacht
Schoenberg - Gurre-Lieder
Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande
Schoenberg - String Quartet 1
Schoenberg - String Quartet 2
Schoenberg - String Quartet 3 [all the string quartets are mentioned together as one unit but this w
time in Berlin, and thus belongs to Chapter Six]

Schoenberg - String Quartet 4 [similarly, this work dates from Schoenberg's time in America, and t
Schoenberg - The Book of the Hanging Gardens
Schoenberg - Three Pieces for Piano, Op.11
Schoenberg - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.16
Schoenberg - Erwartung
Schoenberg - Six Little Pieces for Piano, Op.19
Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No.1
Mahler - Kindertotenlieder
Berg - Altenberg Lieder
Webern - Im Sommerwind
Webern - Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op.6
Webern - Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.10
Webern - Quartet, Op.22
Berg - Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op.6
Berg - Wozzeck

CHAPTER THREE - DANCE OF THE EARTH

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

Sea shanty "Shallow Brown", and Percy Grainger's use of it
Janek - Jenfa
Bartk - Fourteen Bagatelles for Piano
Bartk - Two Elegies
Bartk - Allegro barbaro
Bartk - String Quartet No.1
Bartk - Bluebeard's Castle
Ravel - Jeux d'eau
Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit
Ravel - Rapsodie espagnole
Sousa - Band Contest
Sousa - Trombone Sneeze
Zemlinsky - Die Seejungfrau
Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov
Stravinsky - The Firebird
Stravinsky - Petrushka
Stravinsky - Scherzo fantastique
Stravinsky - Fireworks
Stravinsky - Three Japanese Lyrics
Stravinsky - The Nightingale [this is a complete opera - The Song of the Nightingale is a shorter sym
same work]
Stravinsky - Les Noces
Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Debussy - tudes
Debussy - En blanc et noir
Debussy - Violin Sonata
Debussy - Cello Sonata
Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Harp and Viola
Satie - Parade
Poulenc - Rapsodie ngre
Villa-Lobos - Amazonas
Villa-Lobos - Uirapur
Milhaud - L' Homme et son dsir
Milhaud - Saudades do Brasil
Milhaud - Le Boeuf sur le toit
Milhaud - La cration du monde
Villa Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras
Stravinsky - L'Histoire du soldat
Auric - Adieu, New York
Stravinsky - Pulcinella
Milhaud - Le Train Bleu
Poulenc - Les Biches
Stravinsky - Mavra
Stravinsky - Octet
Stravinsky - Concerto for Piano and Winds
Stravinsky - Sonata for Piano
Stravinsky - Serenade for Piano
De Falla - Harpsichord Concerto
Honegger - Rugby
Honegger- Skating Rink
Honegger - Pacific 231
Martin - Half-Time
Martin - La Bagarre
Martin - La Revue de cuisine
Martin - The Tears of the Knife
Martin - Revolt
Ravel - La Valse
Bartk - String Quartet No.2
Bartk - The Miraculous Mandarin
Bartk - Violin Sonata No.1
Bartk - Violin Sonata No.2
Bartk - Piano Sonata
Bartk - Out of Doors
Bartk - Piano Concerto No.1
Bartk - String Quartet No.3
Bartk - String Quartet No.4
Peacock Melody
Bartk - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Bartk - Violin Concerto No.2
Janek - The Diary of One Who Has Disappeared
Janek - Ka Kabanov
Janek - The Cunning Little Vixen
Janek - The Makropoulos Affair
Janek - Sinfonietta
Janek - Glagolitic Mass
Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
Stravinsky - Apollo
Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms

CHAPTER FOUR - INVISIBLE MEN

(What did I do to be so) Black and Blue

Joplin - Treemonisha
Arnold - American Plantation Dances
Arnold - The Merry Benedicts
Arnold - American Rhapsody
Arnold - Symphony in F Minor
Cook - Clorindy; or, The Origin of the Cakewalk
Cook - In Dahomey
Strayhorn - Concerto for Piano and Percussion
Ives - Concord Sonata
Ives - The Unanswered Question
Ives - From the Steeples and the Mountains
Ives - Symphony No.2
Ives - Holidays Symphony
Ives - Symphony No.3
Ives - Symphony No.4
Ives - Three Places in New England
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - Livery Stable Blues
Varse - Ameriques
Varse - Arcana
Antheil - Airplane Sonata
Antheil - Sonata Sauvage
Antheil - A Jazz Symphony
Antheil - Ballet Mcanique
Antheil - The Plainsman (film score)
Antheil - The Buccaneer (film score)
Ruggles - Sun-Treader
Still - Levee Land
Still - Afro-American Symphony
Thomson - Four Saints in Three Acts
Kern - Show Boat
Gershwin - The Man I Love
Gershwin - 'S Wonderful
Gershwin - Fascinating Rhythm
Gershwin - Do It Again
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Berg - Lyric Suite
Gershwin - An American in Paris
Gershwin - Porgy and Bess
Louis Armstrong - Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
Ellington - Black, Brown and Beige
Ellington - East St Louis Toodle-oo
Ellington - Creole Rhapsody
Ellington - Ko-Ko
Ellington/Strayhorn - Anatomy of a Murder film score
Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder

Ellington - Jazz Suites [Ross does not specify which ones, but I assume this refers to the Nutcracker

CHAPTER FIVE - APPARITION FROM THE WOODS

Nielsen - Symphonies [these are mentioned in the recordings section rather than the chapter itself
Vaughan Williams - Symphonies [these are mentioned in the recordings section rather than the ch
Sibelius - Kullervo
Sibelius - En Saga
Sibelius - Lemminkainen Suite, Op.22
Sibelius - Karelia Suite
Sibelius - Finlandia
Sibelius - Symphony No.1
Sibelius - Symphony No.2
Sibelius - Symphony No.3
Sibelius - Symphony No.4
Sibelius - Symphony No.5
Sibelius - Symphony No.6
Sibelius - Symphony No.7
Sibelius - Violin Concerto
Sibelius - Valse Triste
Sibelius - Tapiola
Sibelius - Incidental Music to The Tempest
Sibelius - Canzonetta for Strings [and Stravinsky's arrangement of it]
Lindberg - Kraft

CHAPTER SIX - CITY OF NETS

Weill - Threepenny Opera

Berg - Lulu
Hindemith - "six sonatas for stringed instruments" - 1918/19? [I assume this refers to Hindemith's O
Hindemith - Overture of 'The Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a bad spa orchestra at the we
Hindemith - Suite 1922
Hindemith - Viola Sonatas
Hindemith - Kammermusik [Nos. 1-6]
Hindemith - Duet for Bassoon and Double Bass
Orff - Carmina Burana
Orff - School Work (Schulwerk)
Krenek - Jonny Spielt auf
Max Brand - Maschinist Hopkins
Schreker - Der ferne Klang
Sam Wooding - Chocolate Kiddies
Ellington - Jig Walk
Weill - The Protagonist
Weill - Royal Palace
Weill - The Tsar has himself photographed
Weill - Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Schoenberg - Moses und Aron
Schoenberg - Five pieces for piano, Op.23
Schoenberg - Suite for Piano, Op.25
Schoenberg - Serenade, Op.24
Schoenberg - Wind Quintet, Op.26
Schoenberg - Septet-Suite, Op.29
Schoenberg - Variations for Orchestra, Op.31
Schoenberg - Jacob's Ladder [Die Jakobsleiter]
Webern - Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op.9
Webern - String Trio, Op.20
Webern - Symphony, Op.21
Webern - Piano Variations, Op.27
Schoenberg - Three Satires, Op.28
Schoenberg - From Today Until Tomorrow, Op.32 [Von heute auf morgen]
Krenek - Charles V
Wolpe - Piano Sonata No.1
Wolpe - Zeus und Elida
"Ernst Busch's postwar recordings of [Eisler's?] Kampflieder" e.g. Der heimliche Aufmarsch
Hindemith - The Baden-Baden Learning Play About Acquiescence [Badener Lehrstck vom Einverst
Weill - The Yes-Sayer [Der Jasager]
Eisler - Die Massnahme
Weill - Mahagonny-Songspiel
Berg - Violin Concerto

CHAPTER SEVEN - THE ART OF FEAR

Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Mosolov - The Iron Foundry
Avraamov - Symphony for Factory Whistles
Shostakovich - Symphony No.1
Shostakovich - Symphony No.2
Shostakovich - New Babylon (film score)
Shostakovich - The Golden Mountains (film score)
Shostakovich - The Counterplan (film score)
Shostakovich - Alone (film score)
Shostakovich - The Nose
Shostakovich - Song of the Counterplan
Popov - Symphony No.1
Shostakovich - Symphony No.5
Jerome Kern - Mis'ry's Comin' Aroun'
Shostakovich - Setting of Pushkin's "Regeneration" [From Op. 46]
Prokofiev - Suggestion diabolique
Prokofiev - Sinfonietta
Prokofiev - The Gambler
Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No.1
Prokofiev - Symphony No.1
Prokofiev - Seven, The Are Seven
Prokofiev - The Love for Three Oranges
Prokofiev - The Fiery Angel
Prokofiev - The Step of Steel
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet
Prokofiev - Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of October
Prokofiev - Zdravitsa
Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev - Semyon Kotko
Shostakovich - Symphony No.7
Lehr - Da geh' ich zu Maxim from The Merry Widow
Prokofiev - War and Peace
Prokofiev - Ivan the Terrible
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.6
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.7
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.8
Prokofiev - Symphony No.5
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No.1
Shostakovich - The Young Guard (film score)
Shostakovich - The Fall of Berlin (film score)
Shostakovich - Song of the Forests
Shostakovich - The Sun Shines Over Our Motherland
Shostakovich - String Quartets [these are mentioned as a single unit but feel free to list all 15 sepa
separately later, in Chapter Twelve]
Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87
Shostakovich - Six Romances on Texts of W.Raleigh, R.Burns and W.Shakespeare, Op.62
Shostakovich - Symphony No.10

CHAPTER EIGHT - MUSIC FOR ALL

Deems Taylor - The King's Henchman

Les Maris de la Tour Eiffel (Cocteau ballet with music by Five of The Six)
Copland - Billy the Kid
Copland - Cortege macabre
Copland - Organ Symphony
Copland - Music for the Theatre
Copland - Piano Concerto
Copland - Piano Variations
Ruth Crawford-Seeger - String Quartet
Ruth Crawford-Seeger - Chant 3
Ruth Crawford-Seeger - Suite for Wind Quintet
Copland - Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
Copland - Statements
Revueltas - La noche de los Mayas
Copland - El Saln Mxico
Copland - Symphonic Ode
Copland - The Second Hurricane
Copland - Music for Radio: Sage of the Prairie
Copland - Lincoln Portrait
Harry T Burleigh - arrangement of Gospel Train
Roy Harris - Symphony No.3
Blitzstein - The Cradle Will Rock
Virgil Thomson - Symphony on a Hymn Tune
Virgil Thomson - Injunction Granted
Virgil Thomson - The Plow That Broke the Plains (film score)
Virgil Thomson - The River (film score)
Barber - Dover Beach, Op.3
Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op.11a

Barber - Essay for Orchestra [Barber wrote three Essays for Orchestra - I assume that Ross is referr
Barber - Symphony No.1
Sessions - Violin Concerto
Weill - The Eternal Road
Weill - Johnny Johnson
Weill - Knickerbocker Holiday
Weill - Lady in the Dark
Weill - Railroads on Parade
Eisler - Hollywood Elegies
Eisler - Hangmen Also Die (film score)
Copland - Of Mice and Men (film score)
Korngold - Die tote Stadt
Korngold - Captain Blood (film score)
Bernard Herrmann - Citizen Kane (film score)
Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver (film score)
Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo (film score)
Korngold - Symphony in F#
Genesis Suite [multi-composer work featuring contributions from Milhaud, Schoenberg and Stravin
Schoenberg - Suite in G for String Orchestra
Schoenberg - Variations on a Recitative in D Minor for Organ, Op.40
Schoenberg - Kol Nidre, Op.39
Schoenberg - Theme and Variations in G Minor for High school band, Op.43a
Schoenberg - Violin Concerto
Schoenberg - Piano Concerto
Scott Bradley - Puttin' on the Dog
Scott Bradley - The Cat That Hated People
Schoenberg - String Trio, Op.45
Stravinsky - Tango [plus Benny Goodman version]
Stravinsky - Circus Polka
Stravinsky - Scherzo la russe
Stravinsky - Ebony Concerto
Stravinsky - Symphony in C
Stravinsky - Ode
Stravinsky - Symphony in Three Movements
Hindemith - Ludus Tonalis
Bartk - Concerto for Orchestra
Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Copland - Appalachian Spring

CHAPTER NINE - DEATH FUGUE

Pfitzner - Krakau Greeting

Hindemith - The Unending
Hindemith - Mathis der Maler [either the full opera or the shorter orchestral work of the same name
Hindemith - News of the Day [Neues vom Tage]
Werner Egk - Peer Gynt
Hartmann - Miserae
Dallapiccola - Canti di prigionia
Zillig - Das Opfer
Klenau - Michael Kohlhaas
Strauss - Olympic Hymn
Strauss - Die schweigsame Frau
Strauss - Friedenstag
Strauss - Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic
Strauss - Daphne
Strauss - Die Lieber der Danae
Strauss - Capriccio
Schulhoff - Symphonia germanica
Schulhoff - Communist Manifesto
Schulhoff - Symphony No.8
Krsa - Brundibr
Haas - Study for Strings
Strauss - Metamorphosen

CHAPTER TEN - ZERO HOUR

Britten - The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op.35

Robert McBride - Strawberry Jam Overture
Harrison Kerr - Symphony
Dance Around the Golden Calf from Schoenberg's Moses und Aron
Strauss - Four Last Songs [Vier letzte Lieder]

CHAPTER ELEVEN - BRAVE NEW WORLD

Schoenberg - Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, Op.41

Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time [Quatuor pour la fin du temps]
Boulez - Piano Sonata No.1
Dutilleux - Symphony No.1
Boulez - Le Visage nuptial
Boulez - Le Soleil des eaux
Boulez - Piano Sonata No.2
Messiaen - Four Rhythm Etudes [Quatre tudes de rythme]
Barraqu - Piano Sonata
Boulez - Polyphonie X
Boulez - Structures 1a
Cage - Imaginary Landscape No.1
Cage - Credo in Us
Cage - The Perilous Night
Cage - Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Cage - Sonatas and Interludes
Cage - String Quartet in Four Parts
Cage - Sixteen Dances
Cage - Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra
Cage - Music of Changes
Feldman - Projection 1
Schaeffer - Noise Studies [tudes de Bruits]
Pierre Henry - Symphony for a Solitary Man
Cage - Williams Mix
Cage - Imaginary Landscape No.4
Bernstein - Symphony No.1 "Jeremiah"
Bernstein - On the Town
Bernstein - Fancy Free
Copland - Symphony No.3
Copland - Piano Quartet
Copland - Piano Fantasy
Copland - Connotations
Copland - Inscape
Copland - The Tender Land
Copland - Duo for Flute and Piano
Copland - In Evening Air
Copland - Midday Thoughts
Blitzstein - Regina
Thomson - The Mother of Us All
Thomson - Lord Byron
Stravinsky - Danses concertantes
Stravinsky - Four Norwegian Moods
Stravinsky - Orpheus
Stravinsky - Mass
Stravinsky - To-Morrow Shall Be My Dancing Day [from Cantata]
Stravinsky - Septet
Stravinsky - Agon
Stravinsky - Threni
Stravinsky - Movements for piano and orchestra
Stravinsky - Canticum sacrum
Stravinsky - A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer
Stravinsky - The Flood
Stravinsky - Abraham and Isaac
Stravinsky - Requiem Canticles
Stravinsky - Jeu de cartes
Henze - Konig Hirsch
Henze - Nocturnes and Arias
Stockhausen - Kreuzspiel
Stockhausen - Klavierstcke
Eimert/Beyer - Sound in Unlimited Space
Stockhausen - Konkrete Etude
Stockhausen - Electronic Studies
Stockhausen - Gesang der Jnglinge
Stockhausen - Gruppen
Nono - Il canto sopeso
Xenakis - Metastaseis
Boulez - Piano Sonata No.3
Boulez - Le Marteau sans matre
Bernstein - Fanfare for the Inauguration of JFK
Babbitt - Fabulous Voyage
Babbitt - Composition for Four Instruments
Babbitt - Composition for Twelve Instruments
Babbitt - Three Compositions for Piano
Carter - String Quartet No.1
Ives - String Quartet No.2
Carter - Double Concerto
Carter - Piano Concerto
Carter - Cello Sonata
Bernstein - Trouble in Tahiti
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Bernstein - Kaddish
Bernstein - Mass

CHAPTER TWELVE - "GRIMES! GRIMES!"

Britten - Peter Grimes

Szymanowski - The Love Songs of Hafiz
Szymanowski - Symphony No.3
Szymanowski - King Roger
Britten - Quatre Chansons francaises
Britten - Elegy for Viola
Britten - A Boy Was Born
Britten - Coal Face
Britten - Telegrams
Britten - Gas Abstract
Britten - Men Behind the Meters
Britten - How the Dial Works
Britten - Negroes
Britten - Night Mail
Britten - On This Island
Britten - Our Hunting Fathers
Britten - Paul Bunyan
Britten - Ballad of Heroes
Britten - Winter Words
Britten - Violin Concerto
Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem
Britten - Les Illuminations
Britten - Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo
Britten - Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Britten - The Rape of Lucretia
Britten - Albert Herring
Britten - Billy Budd
Britten - Gloriana
Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Britten - The Turn of the Screw
Britten - Owen Wingrave
Britten - The Prodigal Son
Britten - The Burning Fiery Furnace
Britten - Curlew River
Britten - Death in Venice
Britten - War Requiem
Tippett - A Child of Our Time
Nobody Knows de Trouble I See
Go Down, Moses
Deep River
Shostakovich - String Quartet No.8
Shostakovich - Seven Poems of Alexander Blok, Op.127
Shostakovich - Six Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, Op.134a
Shostakovich - Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op.145a
Shostakovich - Symphony No.13
Britten - Cello Suites
Britten - Cello Symphony
Prokofiev - Symphony-Concerto, Op.125
Shostakovich - Symphony No.14
Britten - The Prince of the Pagodas
Shostakovich - Viola Sonata

CHAPTER 13 - ZION PARK

Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Penderecki - Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorio)
Henri Pousseur - Votre Faust
Webern - Cantata No.2, Op.31
Messiaen - The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ [La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jsus-
Messiaen - From the Canyons to the Stars [Des canyons aux toiles]
Messiaen - Apparition of the eternal church [Apparition de l'glise ternelle]
Messiaen - La Fte des belles eaux
Messiaen - Diptyque
Messiaen - Visions de l'Amen
Messiaen - Three Small Liturgies [Trois petites liturgies de la prsence divine]
Messiaen - Harawi
Messiaen - Turangalla-Symphonie
Messiaen - Cinq rechants
Messiaen - Twenty Aspects of the Infant Jesus [Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jsus]
Messiaen - Livre d'orgue
Penderecki - St. Luke Passion
Ligeti - Requiem
Penderecki - Polish Requiem
Messiaen - Rveil des oiseaux
Messiaen - Oiseaux exotiques
Messiaen - Chronochromie
Messiaen - Seven Haikus [Sept Haka]
Messiaen - Colours of the Celestial City [Couleurs de la Cit Cleste]
Messiaen - Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
Messiaen - Catalogue d'oiseaux
Dieter Schnebel - Abfalle I
Cage - Lecture on Nothing
Stockhausen - Zeitmasse
Mauricio Kagel - Anagrama
Mauricio Kagel - Sur scne
Berio - Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)
Berio - Sequenzas
Xenakis - Pithoprakta
Stockhausen - Carr
Stockhausen - Kontakte
Stockhausen - Momente
Lutosawski - Venetian Games [Jeux vnitiens]
Lutosawski - Three Poems of Henri Michaux
Lutosawski - Paroles tisses
Lutosawski - Symphony No.2
Lutosawski - Cello Concerto
Stockhausen - Aus den sieben tagen
Stockhausen - Hymnen
Kagel - Ludwig van (film score)
Berio - Folk Songs
Berio - Sinfonia
Peter Maxwell Davies - Revelation and Fall
Peter Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King
Birtwistle - Punch and Judy
Zimmermann - Die Soldaten
Zimmermann - Requiem for a Young Poet
Ligeti - Musica ricercata
Ligeti - Violin Concerto
Ligeti - Apparitions
Ligeti - Pome Symphonique for 100 Metronomes
Ligeti - Atmosphres
Ligeti - Lux aeterna
Ligeti - Lontano
Ligeti - Aventures
Poulenc -Litanies la Vierge Noire
Poulenc - Mass in G
Poulenc - Stabat Mater
Poulenc - Gloria
Poulenc - Les Dialogues des Carmlites
Honegger - Le roi David
Frank Martin - Maria-Triptychon
Scelsi - Four Pieces
Scelsi - Aion
Scelsi - Anahit
Scelsi - Konx-Om-Pax
Messiaen - Saint Francis of Assisi

CHAPTER 14 - BEETHOVEN WAS WRONG

Bengt Hambraeus - Constellations II

Bengt Hambraeus - Interferences
Reich - It's Gonna Rain
Cowell - Adventures in Harmony
Cowell - The Anaemic Rag
Cowell - Quartet Romantic
Cowell - Quartet Euphometric
Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano
Feldman - Intermissions
Feldman - Extensions
Feldman - The King of Denmark
Feldman - Rothko Chapel
Feldman - String Quartet (II)
Feldman - For Philip Guston
Lukas Foss - Baroque Variations
Rochberg - Third String Quartet
Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and Experience
James Tenney - Analog #1
Nam June Paik - One for Violin Solo
Philip Corner - Piano Activities
Robert Ashley - The Wolfman
Alvin Lucier - Music for Solo Performer
Lucier - I am sitting in a room
Subotnick - Silver Apples of the Moon
Terry Riley - In C
La Monte Young - For Brass
La Monte Young - Trio for Strings
La Monte Young - Composition 1960 #7
La Monte Young - The Four Dreams of China
Terry Riley - String Trio
Riley - Mescalin Mix
Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Reich - City Life
Reich - Different Trains
Reich/Lesh - Event III/Coffee Break
Reich - Come Out
Reich - The Cave
Reich - Three Tales
Reich - Piano Phase
Reich - Four Organs
Shankar/Glass - Chappaqua
Glass - String Quartet No.1
Glass - Two Pages for Steve Reich
Glass - Music in Fifths
Glass - Music in Contrary Motion
Glass - Music in Similar Motion
Glass - Music with Changing Parts
Glass - Music in 12 Parts
Reich - Drumming
Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Lou Reed - The Ostrich
La Monte Young - X For Henry Flynt

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - SUNKEN CATHEDRALS

Adams - El Nio
R. Murray Schafer - Patria
Takemitsu - Film Scores [Ran, Harakiri, Woman in the Dunes, Kwaidan, The Face of Another, Samura
Rising Sun, Empire of Passion, Black Rain]
Takemitsu - In an Autumn Garden
Takemitsu - I hear the water dreaming
Takemitsu - Quotation of Dream
Takemitsu - A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden
Takemistu - Towards the Sea
Takemitsu - Rain Tree
Takemitsu - Bryce
Takemitsu - Rain Spell
Takemitsu - Spirit Garden
Copland - The Red Pony
Golijov - St. Mark Passion
William Duckworth - Southern Harmony
Michael Gordon - Score for Bill Morrisson's film Decasia
Rouse - Der gerettete Alberich
Brian Ferneyhough - String Quartet No.3
Boulez - Rpons
Stockhausen - Licht
Ligeti - Three Pieces for Two Pianos
Louis Andriessen - De Staat
Grisey - Les Espace acoustiques
Murail - Gondwana
Lachenmann - The Little Match Girl
Leonid Desyatnikov - Rosenthal's Children
Gubaidulina - Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings
Schnittke - Symphony No.1
Schnittke - Historia von D. Johann Fausten
Gubaidulina - Offertorium
Prt - Credo
Prt - Fr Alina
Prt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Prt - Tabula rasa
Lutosawski - Symphony No.3
Ligeti - Horn Trio
Kurtag - Stele
Nyman - A Zed and two noughts
George Benjamin - Sudden Time
Jonathan Harvey - Ashes Dance Back
Oliver Knussen - Horn Concerto
Ades - Asyla
Adams - Harmonielehre
Adams - Nixon in China

EPILOGUE

Bjrk - An Echo, A Stain

Golijov - Ayre
Haas - in vain
Saariaho -L'Amour de loin
Peter Lieberson - Neruda Songs
Recording? Listened?
SUGGESTED RECORDINGS

Solti/VPO
Solti/VPO
Bhm/Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Barbirolli or Elder
Gergiev/Kirov Opera
Gardiner/VPO

Thibaudet
Karajan
Karajan
Karajan
Karajan or Reiner
Solti/VPO

Solti/CSO
Karajan or Reiner
Sinopoli/Philarmonia
Maazel
Karajan/VPO
Mehta/ROH
Barbirolli/Janet Baker or Simon Wright/Sarah Connolly

Chailly or Rattle
Karajan

Philippe Jordan/Zurich Opera [DVD] or Kent Nagano/l'Opra National de Lyon [CD]

Leslie Howard or Alfred Brendel
Boulez
Boulez or Abbado
Boulez
Thibaudet
Thibaudet
Boulez
Thibaudet
Thibaudet
Boulez

LaSalle Quartet or Boulez/Ensemble Intercontemporain

Rattle
Boulez
New Vienna Quartet or the LaSalle Quartet
New Vienna Quartet or the LaSalle Quartet

New Vienna Quartet or the LaSalle Quartet

New Vienna Quartet or the LaSalle Quartet

Uchida
Rattle/CBSO
Rattle/CBSO
Uchida
Rattle/Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Bernstein/Hampson/VPO
Juliane Banse/Abbado/VPO
Boulez [Complete Webern]
Boulez [Complete Webern]
Boulez [Complete Webern]
Boulez [Complete Webern]
Abbado/VPO
Abbado or Boulez

Abbado

Mackerras
Zoltn Kocsis
Zoltn Kocsis
Zoltn Kocsis
Takcs Quartet
Solti [DVD]
Angela Hewitt or Steven Osborne
Angela Hewitt or Steven Osborne
Abbado/LSO

Chailly
Gergiev/Kirov Opera
Boulez
Boulez or Rattle [Pollini for the Three Piano Movements Version]
Boulez
Boulez
Boulez

Boulez
Bernstein
Boulez
Thibaudet

Kyung Wha Chung/Radu Lupu

Christopher van Kampen/Ian Brown
Melos Ensemble
Ronald Corp or Plasson
Dutoit

Casadesus [Naxos]

Casadesus [Naxos]
Casadesus [Naxos]
Neschling/Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra
Boulez

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Dutoit

European Chamber Soloists

Seiji Ozawa/Orchestre de Paris/Michel Broff
Michel Broff
Michel Broff
Rattle/London Sinfonietta

Hogwood/St Paul Chamber Orchestra

Abbado
Takcs Quartet
Boulez or Solti
Kremer/Argerich
Gyorgy Pauk/Jeno Jando
Zoltn Kocsis
Zoltn Kocsis
Zoltn Kocsis/Ivn Fischer/Budapest Festival Orchestra
Takcs Quartet
Takcs Quartet
Boulez or Solti
Solti/Kyung Wha Chung

Mackerras
Mackerras
Mackerras
Rattle
Rattle

Rattle
Boulez

Hamelin
Bernstein

Bernstein

Bernstein
Michael Tilson Thomas/CSO
Dohnnyi

Chailly
Chailly
Benedikt Koehlen
Benedikt Koehlen

Daniel Spalding/Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Neeme Jrvi

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book

Bernstein or Previn or Tyzik

LaSalle Quartet
Previn or Bernstein
Rattle or John DeMain

Neeme Jrvi
Handley
Osmo Vnsk
Neeme Jrvi
Neeme Jrvi
Neeme Jrvi
Neeme Jrvi
Neeme Jrvi or Paavo Berglund or Osmo Vnsk
Neeme Jrvi or Paavo Berglund or Osmo Vnsk
Neeme Jrvi or Paavo Berglund or Osmo Vnsk
Neeme Jrvi or Paavo Berglund or Osmo Vnsk
Neeme Jrvi or Paavo Berglund or Osmo Vnsk
Neeme Jrvi or Paavo Berglund or Osmo Vnsk
Neeme Jrvi or Paavo Berglund or Osmo Vnsk
Hahn/Salonen
Neeme Jrvi
Neeme Jrvi or Karajan
Neeme Jrvi
Neeme Jrvi

Wilhelm Bruckner-Ruggeberg/Sender Freies Berlin/Lotte Lenya

Boulez

Chailly
Previn

Lothar Zagrosek

Boulez
Pollini
Pollini
Boulez/Ensemble Intercontemporain
New York Woodwind Quintet [Naxos]
Boulez/Ensemble Intercontemporain
Rattle/CBSO
Boulez
Boulez [Complete Webern]
Boulez [Complete Webern]
Boulez [Complete Webern]
Pollini

Mutter/Levine

Rostropovich/LPO [CD] or Janssons/Concertgebouw [DVD]

Chailly

Barshai
Barshai

Gergiev/Mariinsky
Barshai or Bernstein

Boris Berman

Abbado/Mintz
Gergiev or Ozawa or Karajan

Previn

Abbado

Barshai or Bernstein
Franz Welser-Mst

Boris Berman
Boris Berman
Boris Berman
Gergiev or Ozawa
Rostropovich/Vengerov

Rubio Quartet
Tatiana Nikolayeva

Barshai or Karajan

Bernstein or Copland

Bernstein
Bernstein
Bernstein/Copland
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait - Knussen
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait - Knussen
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Portrait - Knussen

Copland/LSO

Copland or Bernstein
Copland/LSO

Copland/Fonda

Alsop/RSNO

Alsop/RSNO
Alsop/RSNO

Leinsdorf

Previn

Hahn/Salonen
Boulez/Uchida

LaSalle Quartet
Stravinsky / Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Boulez
Stravinsky / Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Stravinsky / Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Boulez or Rattle
John McCabe
Solti
Copland or Bernstein
Copland or Bernstein

Bychkov

Ulf Schirmer/VPO

Karajan

Boulez
Kurt Masur/Jessye Norman

Boulez
Idil Biret

Pollini
Roger Muraro

Boulez/Ensemble Intercontemporain

Bernstein
Bernstein
Bernstein
Bernstein

Bernstein
Bernstein

Dutoit / Sinfonietta de Montral

Chailly / Cleveland Orchestra

Bernstein

European Chamber Soloists

Seiji Ozawa/Orchestre de Paris/Michel Broff

Robert Craft

Abbado

Idil Biret
Boulez

Pacifica Quartet
Blair String Quartet

Bernstein
Bernstein
Bernstein
Bernstein

Colin Davis/ROH

Rattle
Paavo Jrvi / Janine Jansen

Britten

Rubio Quartet

Barshai
Truls Mork

Barshai

Penderecki

Boulez [Complete Webern]

Myung-Whun Chung
Myung-Whun Chung
Olivier Latry
Jeanne Loriod
Olivier Latry
Yvonne Loriod/Olivier Messiaen
Myung-Whun Chung
Yumi Nara/Jay Gottlied
Myung-Whun Chung or Kent Nagano or Riccardo Chailly
Jean-Paul Kreder/Ensemble Le Madrigal
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Olivier Latry

Pierre-Laurent Aimard/The Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez

Jean-Yves Thibaudet/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly
Boulez
Boulez
Myung-Whun Chung
Boulez
Hkon Austb

Rowicki [The Essential Lutoslawski]

Salonen
Lutosawski/Schiff

Boulez
Georges Prtre
Georges Prtre
Nagano

Kent Nagano

Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

Philip Brett
FLUX Quartet
The California EAR Unit
Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]
Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

Steve Reich 1965-1995 [Box set]

Copland
Boulez/Ensemble InterContemporain

Pierre-Laurent Aimard/Irina Kataeva

Hughes/Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

Salonen

Abbado
Michael Nyman and the Zoo Ochestra

Rattle
BOOKS AND OTHER TEXTS

This is a selection of books that looked particularly interesting to me, rather than a full list, which can be foun
through the notes and suggested reading at the back of The Rest is Noise.

Goethe - Faust
Mann - Doktor Faustus
Nietzsche - The Case of Wagner
Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
Weininger - Sex and Character
Hermann von Helmholtz - On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Musi
Busoni - Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music
Russolo - Music of Noise Manifesto
Schoenberg - Harmonielehre
Stefan George - Das Jahr der Seele [The Year of the Soul]
Richard Taruskin - Oxford History of Western Music
Junod - Les chant et les contes des Ba-Ronga
Cocteau pamphlet - The Cock and the Harlequin
Dvok - Real Value of Negro Melodies
W.E.B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
Ives - Memos
Ives - Essays Before a Sonata
Carol Oja - Making Music Modern
Virgil Thompson - Porgy and Bess review for Modern Music - see notes pg.611
Langston Hughes - The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Ellington - The Duke Steps Out (article)
Nicolas Slonimsky - Lexicon of Musical Invective
Ren Leibowitz - Sibelius: The Worst Composer in the World (pamphlet)
Joan Peyser - The New Music
Glenn Watkins - Soundings
Anna Akhmatova - Poem Without a Hero
Muddle instead of music (Pravda editorial)
Shostakovich - Declaration of a Composer's Duties
Jaak Panksepp's "musical chill" study - see notes pg.620
Carlo Gozzi - The Love of Three Oranges
Alfred Hayes poem - Into the Streets May First
Georges Rodenbach - Bruges-la-Morte
Hart Crane - The Bridge
Paul Celan - Death Fugue
Wagner - Das Judentum in der Musik
Goethe - Gtz von Berlichingen
Thomas Mann - The Magic Mountain
OMGUS - Music Control Instruction No.1
Adorno - Philosophy of New Music
Adorno - Minima Moralia
Poulenc - Vive Strawinsky (article)
Boulez - Trajectories: Ravel, Stravinsky, Schoenberg (essay)
Boulez - Schoenberg obituary
Ligeti - two articles, see notes pg 637
Clement Greenberg - Avant-Garde and Kitsch (1939 essay)
Stravinsky - Poetics of Music
Boulez - "Eventually"
Stravinsky/Boulez - see notes pg.640
Francois de Lauze - Apologie de la danse
Kennedy Letter see notes pg. 641
Alexander Pope - Dunciad
Babbitt - Who Cares if you Listen?
George Crabbe - The Borough
Szymanowski - Ephebos
Humphrey Carpenter - The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3
The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922-1936: Shaping a Nation's Tastes
James Weldon Johnson - Book of American Negro Spirituals
Thomas Mann - Death in Venice
Georg Lukcs - The Theory of the Novel
Messiaen - Technique of my musical language
Cardew - Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
Harvey Cox - The Secular City
Henry Cowell - New Musical Resources
Partch - Genesis of a Music
Wilfrid Mellers - Music in a New Found Land
Michael Broyles - Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music
Kyle Gann - Music Downtown
Steve Reich - Writings on Music
Michael Nyman - Experimental Music
Reich - Music as a gradual process (essay)
Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese
Alma Mahler - Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters
Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
Bryan Gilliam - The Life of Richard Strauss
Erik Tawaststjerna - Sibelius
Elizabeth Wilson - Shostakovich: A life remembered
Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss: Correspondence
Stuckenschmidt - Arnold Schoenberg: His Life, World and Work
Moldenhauer - Anton von Webern - A Chronicle of His Life and Work
Glikman - Story of a Friendship
Joseph Auner - A Schoenberg Reader
de La Grange - Mahler
Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures
Nicholas Slominsky - Music since 1900
Nigel Simeone and Peter Hill - Messiaen
Taruskin - Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions
Me of All People: Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer
Martin Bernheimer - Igor Stravinsky has another tiff with the times - Los Angeles Times, July 5th 19
Stephen Walsh - Stravinsky biography
Gayle Sherwood Magee - Charles Ives Reconsidered
Malcolm MacDonald - Varese: Astronomer in Sound
Carol J Oja - Making Music Modern
Paul Allen Anderson - Deep River
James Hepokoski - Sibelius: Symphony No.5
Prokofiev's Diaries
Howard Pollack - Aaron Copland
Michael Denning - The Cultural Front
Michael Kater - The Twisted Muse
David Monod - Settling Scores
Paul Griffiths - Modern Music and After
Arnold Whittall - Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century
The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
Stockhausen on Music
David Matthews - Britten
Christopher Dingle - The Life of Messiaen
Richard Steinitz - Gyorgy Ligeti: Music of the Imagination
Keith Potter - Four Musical Minimalists
Feldman - Give My Regards to Eighth Street
Yeats - Sailing To Byzantium
COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS

Again, this is not a complete list, but a selection of the people that I wanted to investigate as I was reading the
book. For a full list, consult the index of the book itself.

John Knowles Paine

Horatio Parker
George Whitefield Chadwick
Edward MacDowell
Max Reger
Egon Wellesz
Heinrich Isaac
Florent Schmitt
Charlie Parker
Alberic Magnard
Enrique Granados
Wolfgang Andreas Schultz
Les Six
Poulenc
Milhaud
Honegger
Louis Durey
Germiane Tailleferre
Georges Auric
Paul Whiteman
Antonio Mara Romeu
Bach and jazz - Bud powell, John Lewis, Jacques Loussier, Dave Brubeck
Reynaldo Hahn
Sousa
Harry T Burleigh
Wallingford Rieger
Scott Joplin
Harry Lawrence Freeman
Maurice Arnold Strothotte
Will Marion Cook
Will Vodery
James Reese
Fletcher Henderson
Billy Strayhorn
Leo Ornstein
Henry Cowell
Irving Berlin
Jerome Kern
Richard Rodgers
Cole Porter
George Gershwin
Louis Armstrong
Bix Beiderbecke
Varse
Antheil
Carl Ruggles
William Grant Still
Virgil Thompson
Constant Lambert
Joseph Schillinger
Szymanowski
Arnold Bax
William Walton
Brian Ferneyhough
Wolfgang Rihm
Tristan Murail
Grard Grisey
Per Nrgrd
Peter Maxwell Davies
John Adams
Thomas Ads
Magnus Lindberg
Kaija Saariaho
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Kurt Weill
Hindemith
Ernst Krenek
Hanns Eisler
Stefan Wolpe
Busoni
Nikos Skalkottas
Luigi Dallapiccola
Roberto Gerhard
Fartein Valen
Roslavets
Gavriil Popov
Vano Muradeli
Samuel Barber
Roy Harris
Marc Blitzstein
Deems Taylor
Rubin Goldmark
Nadia Boulanger
Charles Seeger
Ruth Crawford
Carlos Chvez
Silvestre Revueltas
David Diamond
Alexander Siloti
Asadata Dafora
Roger Sessions
Walter Piston
Paul Bowles
Morton Gould
David Raskin
Ernst Toch
Karol Rathaus
Miklos Rozsa
Franz Waxman
Eric Zeisl
Scott Bradley
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Winfried Zillig
Paul von Klenau
Erwin Schulhoff
Pavel Haas
Viktor Ullmann
Hans Krasa
Albert Roussel
Gideon Klein
Stockhausen
Henze
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Berio
Xenakis
Britten
Boulez
Dutilleux
Jean Barraqu
Karel Goeyvaerts
Morton Feldman
Christian Wolff
Earle Brown
David Tudor
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henry
William Schumann
Ned Rorem
Hermann Heiss
Glenn Miller
Werner Meyer-Eppler
Herbert Eimert
Robert Beyer
Luigi Nono
Alan Hovhaness
Milton Babbitt
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Otto Luening
Elliott Carter
Art Tatum
Ralph Shapey
Charles Wuorinen
George Perle
Arthur Berger
Harvey Sollberger
Andrew Imbrie
Leon Kirchner
Donald Martino
Frank Bridge
Sofia Gubaidulina
Helmut Lachenmann
Dieter Schnebel
Sylvano Bussotti
Mauricio Kagel
Gorecki
Kazimierz Serocki
Wojciech Kilar
Lutosawski
Frederic Rzewski
Richard Teitelbaum
Alvin Curran
Allan Bryant
Cornelius Cardew
Harrison Birtwistle
Frank Martin
Giacinto Scelsi
Vieri Tosatti
Lou Harrison
La Monte Young
Gunther Schuller
Anthony Braxton
Cecil Taylor
Conlon Nancarrow
Harry Partch
David Del Tredici
Lukas Foss
George Crumb
William Bolcom
James Tenney
Jackson Mac Low
Luigi Russolo
Al Hansen
George Brecht
Dick Higgins
Henry Flynt
Robert Ashley
Alvin Lucier
Pauline Oliveros
Morton Subotnick
Terry Jennings
Dennis Johnson
Richard Maxfield
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Pandit Pran Nath
Tony Conrad
Ben Johnston
John Cale
Sun Ra
Albert Ayler
Phil Lesh
Tom Constanten
Stephen Foster
Phill Niblock
Meredith Monk
Kenny Clarke
Erik Satie
Glenn Branca
Peter Sculthorpe
R. Murray Schafer
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Chen Yi
Unsuk Chin
Toru Takemitsu
He Luting
Wu Zuqiang
Du Mingxin
Tan Dun
Zhou Long
Bright Sheng
Guo Wenjing
Osvaldo Golijov
Joan La Barbara
Kenji Bunch
Nico Muhly
Valgeir Sigursson
John Zorn
Bjrk
William Duckworth
Michael Gordon
Julia Wolfe
David Lang
Bang on a Can
John Corigliano
Mark Adamo
Christopher Rouse
Joan Tower
John Harbison
Brian Ferneyhough
Louis Andriessen
Tristan Mutail
Hugues Dufourt
Leonid Desyatnikov
Schnittke
Olga Neuwirth
Gyrgy Kurtg
George Benjamin
Jonathan Harvey
Oliver Knussen
Georg Friedrich Haas
Peter Lieberson
OTHER PEOPLE

Again, not a full list, just those that I was interested in investigating as I read.

Ernst Decsey
Josephine Strauss (mother of Richard)
Arthur Seidl
Richard Dehmel
Karl Henckell
Oskar Panizza
John Henry Mackay
Karl Kraus
Alfred Roller
Caruso
Otto Weininger
Hermann von Helmholtz
Stefan George
Richard Gerstl
Heinrich Schenker
Julius Korngold
Helene Nahowski
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Arthur Pryor
Sousa
Richard Taruskin
Yevgeniya Linyova
Willie "The Lion" Smith
James P Johnson
Bessie Smith
Princess de Polignac
Etienne de Beaumont
Charles and Marie Laure de Noailles
Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre
Natalie Barney
Miklos Horthy
George Balanchine
Carl Van Vechten
Sidney Bechet
Ernest Ansermet
WC Handy (and his orchestra)
Florence Mills
Eva Gauthier
Otto Kahn
DuBose Heyward
John W. Bubbles
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Olin Downes
Heinrich Strobel
Leo Kestenberg
Kolisch family
Wedekind
Anatol Lunacharsky
Arthur Louri
Lev Theremin
Boleslav Yavorsky - The Construction of Musical Speech
Bukharin
Meyerhold
Mandelstam
Babel
Mikhail Bakhtin
Carlo Gozzi
Andrei Zhdanov
Walter Damrosch
Nelson Riddle (arranger)
Stokowski
Serge Koussevitzky
Nadia Boulanger
Dean Dixon
Alexander Siloti
Asadata Dafora
Boris Morros - director of music at Paramount
Irving Thalberg
Henry Wallace
Henry Luce
Martha Graham
Hans Frank
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Stefan Zweig
Lucius Clay
John Evarts
Heinrich Jalowetz
Carlos Moseley
Wolfgang Steinecke
Everett Helm
Shirley Gabis
Pierre Souvtchinsky
Robert Craft
Nicolas Nabokov
Lincoln Kirstein
Ren Char
David Sarnoff
Peter Pears
Eric Crozier
George Crabbe
Paul and Jane Bowles
George Davis (editor)
Golo Mann
Gypsy Rose Lee
Christopher Isherwood
Klaus Mann
(Carson McCullers)
William Blake
Montagu Slater
Wilfred Owen
Thomas Mann
August von Platen
Yvonne Loriod
Cathy Berberian
Georg Trakl
John Varian
Fiorello La Guardia
George Rochberg
Michael Beckermann
William Mayer
Gordon Mumma
Marian Zazeela
Angus MacLise
Alfred Frankenstein (critic)
Beryl Korot
Stephen Foster
Humphrey Searle
Walter De Maria
Jiang Qing
Kayhan Kalhor
RECORDINGS LISTED AT THE BACK OF THE BOOK

These are all listed at the end of the book anyway, but I've included them here for convenience.

Schoenberg, Berg and Webern - Levine/BPO - DG

Salonen - LA Phil Rite of Spring/Miraculous Mandarin
Bernstein - Mahler complete symphonies
Abbado - Mahler 6, BPO, DG
Mahler Lied Klemperer
Philips Uchida - Berg Sonata, Webern Vars, Schoenberg 3 pieces and 6 little pieces, piano concerto (Cl
Berlin State Opera production of Wozzeck
The Alban Berg Collection (DG)
Stravinsky - own recordings on Columbia of Rite, Petrushka, Symphony of Psalms and Symphony in 3 M
Janacek operas - Mackerras
Bernstein - Milhaud Creation du monde
Michael Tilson Thomas - Charles Ives: An American Journey
Rattle - Porgy and Bess
Ellington - Black Brown and Beige - 1943 archival premiere recording (Prestige) and abridged Columbi
Threepenny Opera - 1954 Columbia or old recordings from the 20s and 30s
Boulez - Lulu (via DG Berg Collection)
Bernstein Shostakovich symphonies 5 and 9 (and 7?) with NYP Sony
Shostakovich Quartets - Borodin Quartet
Maazel - Romeo and Juliet Cleveland
Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Copland The Populist
Ruth Crawford-Seeger - DG Portrait disc by Oliver Knussen
Strauss - Daphne Bohm
Stockhausen - Gruppen / Kurtag - Stele - Abbado BPO
Xenakis - Metastasis (col legno)
John Cage - The Seasons (ECM)
Pacifica Quartet - Carter Quartets
Ligeti Atmospheres and Lontano BPO with Jonathan Nott
Teldec's Ligeti Edition - Requiem
Lou Harrison - Chamber and Gamelan Works (New World)
Reich - Nonesuch boxsets
Haas - in vain - Cambreling/Klangforum Wien
Golijov - Ayre and Berio Folk Songs - Dawn Upshaw and the Andalucian Dogs
Gubaidulina - Offertorium - Kremer/Dutoit/Boston Symphon (DG)
Tabula Rasa (ECM) Kremer Schnittke etc.
Ades - Asyla - Simon Rattle CBSO (EMI)
L'Amour de loin Saariaho - Salonen Finnish National Opera (DG DVD)
Neruda Songs - Levine, Boston Symphony
MISCELLANEOUS

This is a list of various bits and pieces - venues, concepts, musical terms, organisations, and so on. Again, it is not exhaustiv

diablous in musica
Barnum's Original Skeleton Dude
Telharmonium
Telharmonic Hall
Wanamaker's Department Store
Manhattan Opera House
Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross
Order of the Rose-Cross of the Temple and Graal
Harmonic Series
Mallarme poem on which Prlude l'aprs-midi d'un faune is based
cante jondo
Uberbrettl cabaret /Buntes Theater
Klangfarbenmelodie
aberratio mentalis partialis
octatonic scale
danzn
Negro Grand Opera Company, Harlem
Cakewalk
Harlem Renaissance
New York Syncopated Orchestra/Southern Syncopated Orchestra
Clef Club Orchestra and Hell Fighters
Ragtime
Film: L'Inhumaine by Marcel L'Herbier
International Composers Guild
Einsturzende Neubaten
Ernst Lubitsch's film of Carmen
Gebrauchsmusik
New Objectivity
Donaueschingen Festival
Baden-Baden Festival
Salzburg Festival
Hochschule fur Musik
Amar Quartet
Zeitoper
Schlagwort
Gestus
Novembergruppe and "Stationary Music"
Kampflieder
Japanese play "Taniko"
The ten days that shook the world
Akkadian
Operation Squall
Oprichniks
Moscow - Hall of Columns
Warner Brothers 1926 Don Juan film
New Friends of Rhythm (NBC Jazz ensemble aka Toscanini's Hep Cats)
League of Composers
New Masses (publication)
Lomax anthologies - Our Singing Country and Folk Song USA
Harold Clurman's Group Theatre in New York
The Daily Worker Chorus
American Workers' Music Olympiad
Pierre Degeyter Symphonietta
William Bonney (Billy the Kid)
The Scottsboro Boys
Marian Anderson (singer) and her legendary concert at the Lincoln Memorial
Federal Music Project
The Composers' Forum-Laboratory
Hallie Flanagan
The Negro Theatre Project
The Plow that Broke the Plains (film)
New York World's Fair Queens 1939 - Trylon and Perisphere
Eisler/Losey film - Pete Roleum and His Cousins
The City (documentary from the Worlds Fair)
Fritz Lang's Hangmen Also Die
Kroll Opera House
Kranichstein Hunting Castle
Stalag VIII A (Messiaen)
Water Music (Cage Concert)
Black Mountain Piece (Cage happening)
Domaine Musicale (Boulez Concert Series)
Lincoln Centre
Masterpieces of the XXth Century (festival)
Agon - Balanchine's choreography
National Endowment for the Arts
Kennedy Centre
The Ford Foundation
Dwight Macdonald
The Electronic Music Synthesizer
RCA's Mark II synthesizer
The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Bernstein - Omnibus Lectures
Aldeburgh Festival
Britten/Auden BBC feature - Hadrian's Wall
enharmonic change
Modes of limited transposition
Warsaw Autumn Festival
Musica Elettronica Viva
AMM [London music group]
Film - Ludwig van (1969)
Ondiola [instrument]
Third Stream Jazz
Temple of the People
Icelandic rmur
Native American thundersticks
Cloud-Chamber Bowls (Partch)
Kithara (Partch)
Marimba Eroica (Partch)
Kabbalism
Neotonalism
Oberlin
Ann Arbor
Champaign-Urbana
Iowa City
I-80 Avant Garde (Kyle Gann term)
ONCE festival, Ann Arbor
The San Francisco Tape Music Center
Nonesuch records
Theatre of Eternal Music
Ken Dewey - The Gift (play)
San Francisco Mime Troupe - Minstrel Show
Acid Tests
The Fillmore
Paula Cooper's Park Place cooperative
Whitney Museum show - Anti-Illusion
Chappaqua - film (Shankar/Glass)
Tanglewood
Pickwick Records
Lucienne Boyer - Parlez-moi d'amour
shakuhachi flute
biwa lute
The Cultural Revolution
Red Detachment of Women
The Red Lantern
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
taiko drums
Chinese opera
Japanese gagaku
Persian radif
Indian classical
West African polyrhythms
Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project
New York venues - Miller Theatre, Zankel Hall, the Kitchen, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Joe's Pub
New Complexity
IRCAM
Spectralism
ADDITIONAL LISTS MADE BY ALEX ROSS

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