Oxford Music Online

Twentieth Century

Essays

• Aleatory
• Atonality
• Czech Republic
• Expressionism
• France
• Gebrauchsmusik
• Germany
• Hungary
• Italy
• Minimalism
• Modernism
• Neo-classicism
• Opera
• Postmodernism
• Russian Federation
• Serialism
• Symphony
• Twelve-note composition
• United States

Biographies

• Adams, John
• Adorno, Theodor
• Andriessen, Louis
• Babbitt, Milton
• Bartók, Béla
• Beach, Amy Marcy
• Berg, Alban
• Berio, Luciano
• Bernstein, Leonard
• Birtwistle, Sir Harrison
• Boulanger, Lili
• Boulez, Pierre
• Britten, Benjamin
• Cage, John
• Copland, Aaron
• Cowell, Henry
• Dahlhaus, Carl
• Debussy, Claude
• Enescu, George
• Feldman, Morton
• Ferneyhough, Brian
• Gershwin, George
• Glass, Philip
• Ives, Charles
• Janáček, Leoš
• Kagel, Mauricio
• Lachenmann, Helmut
• Lutosławski, Witold
• Messiaen, Olivier
• Nono, Luigi
• Poulenc, Francis
• Prokofiev, Sergey
• Reich, Steve
• Rihm, Wolfgang
• Satie, Erik
• Schoenberg, Arnold
• Shostakovich, Dmitry
• Sibelius, Jean
• Skryabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz
• Stravinsky, Igor
• Strauss, Richard
• Thomson, Virgil
• Varèse, Edgard
• Vaughan Williams, Ralph
• Webern, Anton
• Xenakis, Iannis