Proof through the night : music and the great war /

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Main Author: Watkins, Glenn, 1927-
Format: CD Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • ch. 1. In search of kultur
  • Great Britain
  • ch. 2. Pomp and circumstance
  • ch. 3. The old lie
  • ch. 4. The symphony of the front
  • France
  • ch. 5. Mobilization and the call to history
  • ch. 6. War and the children
  • ch. 7. War games, 1914-1915
  • ch. 8. Charades and masquerades
  • ch. 9. Church, state, and schola
  • ch. 10. Neoclassicism, aviation, and the Great War
  • Italy
  • ch. 11. The world of the future, the future of the world
  • Germany-Austria
  • ch. 12. "Dance of death"
  • ch. 13. "The last days of mankind"
  • The United States of America
  • ch. 14. "The Yanks are coming"
  • ch. 15. "Onward Christian soldiers"
  • ch. 16. The 100% American
  • ch. 17. "Proof through the night"
  • ch. 18. "On patrol in no man's land"
  • ch. 19. Coming of age in America
  • Post-Armistice
  • ch. 20. "Goin' home"
  • ch. 21. Ceremonials and the war of nerves
  • ch. 22. The persistence of memory
  • ch. 23. Prophecies of alarms
  • Epilogue
  • ch. 24. Unfinished business
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index
  • List of CD contents.
  • Contents of Accompanying Sound Disc: 1. To Women from The Spirit of England / Edward Elgar (2:14)
  • 2. Chant du départ / Etienne-Nicolas Méhul (2:23)
  • 3. Berceuse héroïque / Claude Debussy (3:06)
  • 4. Enblanc et noir (excerpt of second movement) / Claude Debussy (1:26)
  • 5. Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus maisons / Claude Debussy (2:40)
  • 6. March from Trois pièces faciles / Igor Stravinsky (1:07)
  • 7. Souvenir d'une marche boche / Igor Stravinsky (1:27)
  • 8. Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis / Maurice Ravel (3:08) 9. Toccata from Tombeau de Couperin / Maurice Ravel (3:34)
  • 10. O toi qui le premier osas quitter la terre / Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe (4:55)
  • 11. Der verlorene Haufen / Arnold Schoenberg (4:19)
  • 12. Der tag ist vergangen / Anton Webern (1:09)
  • 13. On patrol in no man's land / Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, and James Reese Europe (2:20)
  • 14. The road home / John Alden Carpenter (2:57)
  • 15. In Flanders Fields / Charles Ives (music) and John McCrae (lyrics) (2:23)
  • 16. Tom sails away / Charles Ives (music and lyrics) (2:47)
  • 17. Frontispiece / Maurice Ravel (1:30).