Background
Morgan, Robert P. was born on July 28, 1934 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hugh J. and Robert (Porter) Morgan.
( This book began as an attempt to carry out a suggestion...)
This book began as an attempt to carry out a suggestion made in 1929 by Carl Engel in his "Views and Reviews"-to fulfill his wish for " a living record of musical personalities, events, conditions, tastes ...a history of music faithfully and entirely carved from contemporary accounts. Twentieth-century music has been described as complex, vital, diverse, uncertain, experimental, self-conscious, innovative-the list is long and growing. Composers have been both credited with and accused of always searching for something "new," writing works that are mechanistic but romantic, meaningful but unskilled, beautiful but ugly! In The Twentieth Century, Robert P. Morgan helps us grasp the flavor of the era by presenting forty-five readings from the period, nearly all written by active participants in the musical developments of the time. Thus we tune in to the voices of some thirty composers-from Busoni to Babbitt, Ives to Xenakis, Satie to Stravinsky-and learn from performers Anderson and Landowska, philosopher-critics Adorno, Dahlhaus, and Meyer, and writers Cocteau, Barthes, and Eco.
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Twentieth Century Music is the third volume to appear in this series. Morgan divides his text into three chronological sections. Beginning with such giants as Mahler, Richard Strauss and Debussy, he discusses national movements, as represented by Charles Ives and Ralph Vaughan Williams; philosophical movements as various as the Schoenberg/Berg/Webern alliance or "les six"; and the giants who were "sui generis", such as Bartok and Stravinsky. The "isms" such as serialism, minimalism, indeterminism, the new romanticism and pluralism, are clearly delineated and the electronic boom of the last decades is defined.
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Morgan, Robert P. was born on July 28, 1934 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hugh J. and Robert (Porter) Morgan.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1956; Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1969; Master of Arts, University of California, 1958.
Instructor, U. Houston, 1963-1967; assistant professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1967-1970; associate professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1970-1975; professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1975-1979; professor, University of Chicago, 1979-1989; professor, Yale University, New Haven, since 1989. Visiting professor University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1976-1978, Yale University, 1987. Advisory board Fromm Music Foundation, Chicago, 1984-1989.
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( Twentieth Century Music is the third volume to appear i...)
Member American Musicol. Society (council member 1982-1985), Society for Music Theory (board directors since 1985), College Music Society, Yale Club (New York City).
Married Carole Ann Montgomery, June 12, 1965.