The Art of Music - Volume 03: Modern Music

Read by Edmund Bloxam

A survey of music from the late nineteenth century ('modern' at the time), including references to style, comments on traditionalism and nationalism, the latter being a core feature of music at that time. Also included are a number of composers you have probably never heard of. (Summary by The Reader)

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1 01 - Introduction 32:52
2 02 - Chapter One: By and After Currents of the Romantic Movement 1:14:27
3 03 - Chapter Two: The Russian Romanticists 42:43
4 04 - Chapter Three: The Music of Modern Scandinavia, Part One 51:22
5 05 - Chapter Three: The Music of Modern Scandinavia, Part Two 46:19
6 06 - Chapter Four: The Russian Nationalists 58:41
7 07 - Chapter Five: The Music of Contemporary Russia 57:32
8 08 - Chapter Six: Musical Development in Bohemia and Hungary, Part One 45:48
9 09 - Chapter Six: Musical Development in Bohemia and Hungary, Part Two 28:42
10 10 - Chapter Seven: The Post-Classical and Poetic Schools of Modern Germany, Part One 39:35
11 11 - Chapter Seven: The Post-Classical and Poetic Schools of Modern Germany, Part Two 36:58
12 12 - Chapter Eight: German Opera after Wagner and Modern German Song, Part One 39:29
13 13 - Chapter Eight: German Opera after Wagner and Modern German Song, Part Two 38:10
14 14 - Chapter Nine: The Followers of César Franck, Part One 39:45
15 15 - Chapter Nine: The Followers of César Franck, Part Two 41:22
16 16 - Chapter Ten: Debussy and the Ultra-Modernists, Part One 54:02
17 17 - Chapter Ten: Debussy and the Ultra-Modernists, Part Two 50:46
18 18 - Chapter Eleven: The Operatic Sequel to Verdi 39:10
19 19 - Chapter Twelve: The Renaissance of Instrumental Music in Italy 49:42
20 20 - Chapter Thirteen: The English Musical Renaissance, Part One 25:45
21 21 - Chapter Thirteen: The English Musical Renaissance, Part Two 43:41