Table of Contents

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 Björn 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.

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An authoritative guide to the multi-faceted compositional approach that underpinned twentieth-century art music from Schoenberg to Babbitt and beyond.

About the Author

Martin Iddon is Professor of Music and Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He is a composer and musicologist, the author and editor of multiple volumes devoted to post-war music, including New Music at Darmstadt (2013), John Cage and David Tudor (2013), John Cage and Peter Yates (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and, with Philip Thomas, John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra (2020).