Stručný přehled světové hudby 20. století – Mazourová Markéta (2021)

The textbook maps the development of world music from the end of the Romantic period and provides an overview of key composers and their most famous works. The introduction focuses on a basic description of the changes in musical thinking at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the breaking down of old conventions, and the transition from classical tonality to a looser tonality and later to atonality and other possibilities of perceiving music. The author, with the expertise of an experienced educator, dedicates attention to the musical elements of expanded chordal thinking, illustrating the most typical examples with musical notation. In the next part of the textbook, the author presents an alphabetical, encyclopedic overview of the musical styles of contemporary music, including their basic characteristics, again proceeding chronologically and as clearly as possible. The final section contains another alphabetical list of key composers of contemporary world music, a brief description of their life and artistic careers, and a list of their most famous works. This part of the textbook is also compiled encyclopedically, allowing for quick reference. The strength of the textbook lies in its systematic approach and brevity, which saves students from the complicated compilation of learning materials from extensive specialized and scholarly works.