"One of the greatest strengths of Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries is that instead of simply presenting chronology, Auner has identified themes for each of his four periods and uses them to create startling juxtapositions. Chapter Seven, “The Search for Order and Balance,” for example, begins with Arnold Schoenberg and his development of the twelve-tone method, followed logically by Anton Webern and Alban Berg’s use of the system. But suddenly, at its half point, the chapter segues into the search for new ways to order rhythm and texture by composers such as Henry Cowell, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joseph Schillinger, Bela Bartók, and Paul Hindemith. In addition to the surprising but welcome inclusion of the influential theorist Schillinger, this chapter brings together composers often taught as opposed to one another and demonstrates their commonalities, opening up students’ minds to, as Auner might have it, the sense of possibilities in rethinking music history. Each chapter is chock full of these insights, urging students to go beyond the cursory binaries so often presented in undergraduate history surveys to find the rich complexity of the period in question."

-S. Andrew Granade, College Music Symposium 55 (2015)

Here you will find useful supplementary materials for Joseph Auner's Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (W.W.Norton, 2013), including

• links to on-line resources, archives, museums, and composer pages
• lists of additional readings, interesting journals, and literary works
• downloadable study guides for each chapter

The Norton Study Space provides links to Further Readings for each chapter of the book, along with links to Suggested Recordings (available on ITunes, Naxos, Amazon, and also WorldCat links) for pieces discussed in the Anthology.

The Study Guides include an outline of each chapter along with the names, terms, and concepts that are most relevant to the narrative. The works included in the Anthology for Music in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries are central to each chapter; terms and names from the commentaries that do not also appear in the book are indicated under the anthology entries. Other important works and pieces featured in music examples in the book are given in bold. The references to primary sources in the Strunk Source Readings refer toRobert P. Morgan, ed. The Twentieth Century, Vol. 7 of Source Readings in Music History, ed. Oliver Strunk, Revised Edition, ed. Leo Treitler (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.) Page references and item numbers are given for both the single-volume edition and the seven-volume edition. Instructors are encouraged to further focus or expand the lists and/or to add additional material in line with the content of the specific course. In addition to being able to identify the items in the list, students should consider their broader significance in the context of the chapter and their relationships to material in the other chapters. In other words, think about why these items are significant at the point in the narrative where they occur.

Visit the websites of the other books in the series, Western Music in Context: A Norton History:

Margot Fassler, Music in the Medieval West

Rich Freedman, Music in the Renaissance

Wendy Heller, Music in the Baroque

John A. Rice, Music in the Eighteenth Century

Walter Frisch, Music in the Nineteenth Century

I would be grateful for your suggestions of other material to include on this site along with any other comments you may have on the book or anthology. You can contact me at joseph.auner@tufts.edu A list of errata in the first printing is included below.

Professor Joseph Auner

Tufts University

20 Talbot Avenue

Medford, MA 02155

SUBPAGES (1): ERRATA (IN FIRST PRINTING)