Transcultural modernism -- Verbunkos -- Identity, nationalism, and modernism -- Modernism and authenticity -- Listening to transcultural tonal practices -- The verbunkos idiom in the music of the future -- Idiomatic lateness

This work includes summaries and excerpts from the works of C.P.E. Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Hummel and Debussy.

Expertly arranged Piano music by Franz Liszt from the Kalmus Edition series. These rhapsodies are from the Romantic era.

Claude Debussy's Complete Images (Books 1 and 2), Urtext Edition. Reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material.

Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories 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 up to the present. 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.