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     "The Rest Is Noise is a great achieve-ment. Rilke once wrote of how he learned to stand "more seeingly'in front of certain paintings. Ross
enables us to listen more hearingly."
--GEOFF DYER, The New York Times Book Review
"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to the maelstrom of recent music than Mr. Ross, who worked on this book for a decade. He has an almost uncanny gift for putting music into words."
--The Economist
"[A] hugely enjoyable cultural history."
--The Christian Science Monitor
"Ross is a supremely gifted writer who brings together the political and technological richness of the world inside the magic circle of the concert hall, so that each illuminates the other."
--LEV GROSSMAN, Time
"The Rest Is Noise is a long and thrilling ride [Ross] writes about music in vivid language humming with intelligence. He tells great stories about musicians' lives and illuminates their work with the light of his own experiences."
--KEVIN BERGER, Salon.com
"The best book on what music is about--really about--that you or I will ever own."
--ALAN RICH, LA Weekly

作者简介：

     Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, is the recipient of nu-merous awards for his work, including two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, a Holtzbrinck Fellowship at the Ameri-
     can Academy in Berlin, a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for sig-nificant contributions to the field of contemporary music. The Rest IsNoise is his first book.

内容简介
     In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker,weaves together the events of the twentieth century and its music--from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies, from Berlin to Beijing today. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between
     the century"s most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.

目录
Preface
Where to Listen
PART I: 1900-11933
1.The Golden Age: Strauss, Mahler, and the Fin de Si~cle
2.Doctor Faust: Schoenberg, Debussy, and Atonality
3.Dance of the Earth: The Rite, the Folk, le Jazz
4.Invisible Men: American Composers from Ives to Ellington
5.Apparition from the Woods: The Loneliness of Jean Sibelius
6.City of Nets: Berlin in the Twenties
PART II:1933-194S
7.The Art of Fear: Music in Stalin's Russia
8.Music forAll: Music in FDR's America
9.Death Fugue: Music in Hitler's Germany
PART III: 194S-2000
10.Zero Hour: The US.Army and German Music, 1945-1949
11.Brave New World: The Cold War andthe Avant-Garde of the Fifties
12."Grimes! Grimes!": The Passion of Benjamin Britten
13.Zion Park: Messiaen, Ligeti, and the Avant-Garde of the Sixties
14.Beethoven Was Wrong: Bop, Rock, and the Minimalists
15.Sunken Cathedrals: Music at Century's End Epilogue
Notes
Suggested Listening
Acknowledgments
Index