1. Composers and audiences -- 2. Precedents and influences: music from 1890-1945 -- 3. New ways of listening: the "loudspeaker revolution" -- 5. New concepts and tools -- 5. The early postwar years -- 6. Pieces for study I -- 7. "Order" and "chaos" -- 8. The electronic revolution I: tape composition and early synthesizers -- 9. Multimedia and total theater -- 10. Texture, mass, and density -- 11. Non-western musical influences -- 12. Pieces for study II.
13. Collage and quotation -- 14. The resurgence of tonality -- 15. New views of performance: space, ritual, and play -- 16. Process and minimalism -- 17. The electronic revolution II: computers and digital systems -- 18. Pieces for study III -- 19. Notation, improvisation, and composition -- 20. Composers and national traditions -- 21. Pieces for study IV: a panorama of works by genre.
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