Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- From Expressionism to Experiment. Directions and Tendencies in New Music -- Arnold Schoenberg. Revolutionary, Humanist and Visionary -- "Music is not to be Decorative -- it is to be True". Towards an Aesthetic of the Second Viennese School -- The Problem of "German Music" -- The Fate of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg after 1933 -- Two Unknown Letters by Schoenberg and Berg -- Beethoven and the Schoenberg School -- Principles of Vocal Composition -- Schoenberg's Gurrelieder -- The Melodramas of Pierrot lunaire -- "God's Eternity Opposes the Transience of Idols". On Schoenberg's Moses und Aron -- Nationalism and Folklorism -- Nikos Skalkottas - A Schoenberg Pupil in Berlin -- Beyond Schoenberg and Debussy. Nikos Skalkottas's 32 Piano Pieces -- A Conversation with Luigi Nono -- Olivier Messiaen's "Theological Music" -- Pierre Boulez's Masterpiece Le Marteau sans maître -- Fascinated by the Music of Ligeti -- Ligeti's Hölderlin-Phantasien. A Letter from the Composer -- Iridescent Sound -- "Folklore in Serious Music is a Lie". Ligeti's Relationship with Béla Bartók -- Multicultural Phenomena in the New Music -- "A Music of the Whole Earth, All Countries and Races":Karlheinz Stockhausen's Utopia of World Music -- The Philosophy of Time and Pluralistic Thought of Bernd Alois Zimmermann -- Alfred Schnittke and Polystylism -- And Always for a BetterWorld -Approaches to Hans Werner Henze -- So-called Postmodernism -- "No Artist Works at a Distance from Humanity" -In Praise of Wolfgang Rihm -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selective Bibliography -- List of Music Examples and Illustrations -- Plates -- Index.