Disc 1. 20th century music: be afraid no longer!
Setting the table and parsing out blame
Debussy and Le Francais in musical action
Russia and Igor Stravinsky
Disc 2. Stravinsky's The rite of Spring
The paradox of Arnold Schoenberg
The emancipation of melody!
The secon Viennese school
Disc 3. The "New" classicism
Schoenberg and the 12-tone method
Synthesis and Nationalism: Bela Bartok
Disc 4. American Iconoclasts
The world turned upside down
Electronic music and European Ultraserialism
Disc 5. Stravinsky in America
For every action an equal reaction
The California avant-garde
Disc 6. East meets West: South meets North
Postmodernism: New Tonalty and Eclecticism
