The Cambridge Companion to Serialism

Preface; Part I. Contexts 1: 1. Theorising serialism Catherine Nolans; 2. The aesthetics of serialism Marcus Zagorski; 3. Serialism in history and criticism Arnold Whittall; Part II. Composers: 4. Arnold Schoenberg and the 'Musical Idea' Jack Boss; 5. Alban Berg's eclectic serialism Silvio Dos Santos; 6. Rethinking late Webern Sebastian Wedler; 7. Milton Babbitt and 'Total' serialism Andrew Mead; 8. Pierre Boulez and the redefinition of serialism Catherine Losada; 9. The serial music of Karlheinz Stockhausen Imke Misch; 10. Luigi Nono and the development of serial technique Angela Ida de Benedictis and Veniero Rizzardi; 11. Stravinsky's path to serialism Maureen Carr; Part III. Geographies: 12. Serialism in western Europe Mark Delaere; 13. Serialism in Canada and the United States Emily Abrams Ansari; 14. Serialism in central and eastern Europe Iwona Lindstedt; 15. Serialism in the USSR Peter J. Schmelz; 16. Serialism in Latin America Bjoern Heile; 17. Serialism in east Asia Nancy Yunhwa Rao; Part IV. Contexts II: 18. Towards an authentic interpretation of serial music Peter O'Hagan; 19. Metamorphoses of the serial (and the 'Post-Serial Question') Charles Wilson; 20. Technologies and the serial attitude Jennifer Iverson; Bibliography.