The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century is a voyage into the labyrinth of modern music, which remains an obscure world for most people While paintings of Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or , and lines from T S Eliot are quoted on the yearbook pages of alienated teenagers across the land, twentieth century classical music still sends ripples of unease through audiences At the same time, its influence can be felt everywhere Atonal chords crop up in jazz Avant garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers Minimalism has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward The Rest Is Noise shows why twentieth century composers felt compelled to create a famously bewildering variety of sounds, from the purest beauty to the purest noise It tells of a remarkable array of maverick personalities who resisted the cult of the classical past, struggled against the indifference of a wide public, and defied the will of dictators Whether they have charmed audiences with sweet sounds or battered them with dissonance, composers have always been exuberantly of the present, defying the stereotype of classical music as a dying art The narrative goes from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler s Germany and Stalin s Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of dramatic new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, riots, and friendships forged and broken The end result is not so much a history of twentieth century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music. New Download [ The Rest Is Noise ] by [ Alex Ross ] – kino-fada.fr You know how you can watch a foreign language movie, without subtitles, and still enjoy the film You may not speak German but can still tell that Hitler s pissed off You may not speak French, but you can tell that Juliette Binoche has reached a point of existential doubt in a meretricious relationship This book was like that for me I may not, even now, be able to articulate a difference between atonality and twelve tone music is there one , but I love being told that some stabbing single You know how you can watch a foreign language movie, without subtitles, and still enjoy the film You may not speak German but can still tell that Hitler s pissed off You may not speak French, but you can tell that Juliette Binoche has reached a point of existential doubt in a meretricious relationship This book was like that for me I may not, even now, be able to articulate a difference between atonality and twelve tone music is there one , but I love being told that some stabbing single notes in a second movement are like a knife in Stalin s heart This book is Music in the Twentieth Century Or, the Twentieth Century, with musicCrescendo pi forte Silence. It starts with Richard Strauss conducting Salome Puccini took the train north Mahler et ux attended Schoenberg and Berg were there Hitler said...This book took me way too long to read, which is a little strange because I found it very interesting and quite inspiring I m tempted to give it five stars, but I m too much of a dilettante when it comes to cough, serious music to not necessarily take everything that the author is saying at face value I do have two complaints about the books though, the first is that the author clearly dislikes the one of the few people I probably do count as an actual hero of mine I don t hold it strongly ag This book took me way too long to read, which is a little strange because I...The story of classical music in the 20th century is no doubt one of intense changes and an immense cast of characters How, exactly, did we go from Mahler in the beginning of the century to Reich and Adams with a bit of Shostakovich and Stockhausen in between Ross takes two main approaches here the first is a political social context in which classical music evolved and influenced each other H...I think this book is best read and listened to at the same time it really adds to it As such, I created a Youtube playlist to go along with your read, which you can find here you re looking for a listen with better sound quality and don t mind finding them yourselves I can t blame you , then here is the list of songs that I thought captured the book Richard Strauss Also Sprach ZarathustraGustav Mahler Symphony No 8Claude Debussy Arabesque ICl I think this book is best read and listened to at the same time it really adds to it As such, I created a Youtube playlist to go along with your read, which you can find here you re looking for a listen with better sound quality and don t mind finding them yourselves I can t blame you , then here is the list of songs that I thought captured the book Richard Strauss Also Sprach ZarathustraGustav Mahler Symphony No 8Claude Debussy Arabesque IClaude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a FaunArnold Schoenberg Verkl rte NachtAnton Webern Six Pieces for OrchestraIgor Stravinsky Rite of SpringDarius Milhaud ScaramoucheWill Marion Cook Swing Along Charles Ives The Unanswered QuestionGeorge Gershwin Rhapsody in BlueJean Sibelius Symphony No 2 Paul Hindemith Sonate per viola e pianoforteLouis Armstrong Mack the KnifeArnold Schoenberg JakobsleiterAlban Berg Lulu Suit...This isn t something I say lightly, but pretty much everyone should consider reading Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise Why Because a it makes for a riveting work of political and cultural history, and b it provides a layman s entry point into that most venerable of Western art forms classical music.I first became acquainted with this book in my late teens By that time, I d already immersed myself quite heavily in free jazz, noise, and the like But classical music especially the 20th century This isn t something I say lightly, but pretty much everyone should consider reading Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise Why Because a it makes for a riveting work of political and cultural history, and b it provides a layman s entry point into that most venerable of Western art forms classical music.I first became acquainted with this book in my late teens By that time, I d already immersed myself quite heavily in free jazz, noise, and the like But classical music especially the 20th century variety had thus far eluded my understanding Like many otherwise adventurous young listeners, I felt overwhelmed by the plethora of composers, performers and recordings to choose from And in this regard, avant...alex ross is one of the few remaining music critics for a major american periodical there used to be many , but it s a dwindling profession art , in his case, the new yorker he attends a concertthan once if possible, with the score and without, in order to both understand the music and feel it and he s young, so his ears aren t burdened with decades of ear wax, received wisdom, archaic prejudice, etc.how rare is it to ever find anyone who can write about music an impossible cha alex ross is one of the few remaining music critics for a major american periodical there used to be many , but it s a dwindling profession art , in his case, the new yorker he attends a concertthan once if possible, with the score and without, in order to both understand the music and feel it and he s young, so his ears aren t burdened with decades of ear wax, received wisdom, archaic prejudice, etc.how rare is it to ever find anyone who can write about music an impossible challenge on the face of it, if one is going to say anythingthan technical data like, the dotted sixteenths in bar25 mirror the attenuated chromatic intonation etc etc his grasp of the material is sure his writing is tonic, refreshing his insights are sharp his tone, fresh he s on the dime.h...This is a comprehensive overview of Western music in the twentieth century I was lucky enough to live in Los Angeles in the last decade when Disney Hall opened, so I heard music by many of these composers played by both the full orchestra and by smaller groups in the Green Umbrella series Plus there was Jacaranda in Santa Monica Those two sources taught me to appreciate modern music, so I read this with muchexperience and curiosity than I would have had fifteen years ago.But the operati This is a comprehensive overview of Western music in the twentieth century I was lucky enough to live in Los Angeles in the last decade when Disney Hall opened, so I heard music by many of these composers played by both the full orchestr...Ross, whose articles in the New Yorker I have followed religiously for years, and continue to anticipate with a zeal otherwise reserved for The Wire, delivers a multi layered and exhaustively researched portrait of a century s music and its reception His account includes not only a collection of nuanced miniature biographies of composers both the duly celebrated and the tragically neglected and sweeping, intertextual analyses of the music from jazz rags and pop songs to symphonic masterworks Ross, whose articles in the New Yorker I have followed religiously for years, and continue to anticipate with a zeal otherwise reserved for The Wire, delivers a multi layered and exhaustively researched portrait of a century s music and its reception His account includes not only a collection of nuanced miniature biographies of com...Alex Ross wonderful trip to the 20th Century via the world of classical music and it s composers As I mentioned I had very little knowledge of classical music especially modern I knew Glass, Reich, Satie, but overall this is pretty much a new world music wise.Saying that this is also the history of cultur...Ross weaves biography, history, and musical description into a pleasing synthesis, in accessible nonacademic language He does for 20th century classical music what Niall Ferguson did for the British Empire, in Empire How Britain Made The Modern World Both authors are terrific storytellers.Among the interesting subplots are the relationships at times close, friendly, grudgingly respectful, rivalrous, prickly, or downright hostile between various composer pairs Strauss and Mahler, Prokofiev Ross weaves biography, history, and musical description into a pleasing synthesis, in accessible nonacademic language He does for 20th century classical music what Niall Ferguson did for the British Empire, in Empire How Britain Made The Modern World Both authors are terrific storytellers.Among the interesting subplots are the relationships at times close, friend...

• English
• 17 May 2017
Alex Ross
• Hardcover
• 640 pages
• 0374249393
• Alex Ross
• The Rest Is Noise