Preface
1. Claude Debussy (1862-1918), La cathedrale engloutie, no. 10 from Preludes, Book 1 (1910)
2. Claude Debussy, Canope, no. 19 from Preludes, Book II (1910-13)
3. Claude Debussy, Sarabande, from Pour le piano (1894-1901)
4. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Introduction to Part I, from The Rite of Spring (1913)
5. Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Song of the Harvest, no. 33 from Forty-four Violin Duets (1931)
6. Bela Bartok, Whole-tone Scale, no. 136 from Mikrokosmos, vol. 5 (1932-39)
7. Bela Bartok, Diminished Fifth, no. 101 from Mikrokosmos, vol. 4 (1932-39)
8. Bela Bartok, From the Island of Bali, no. 109 from Mikrokosmos, vol. 4 (1932-39)
9. Anton Webern (1883-1945), Five Movements for String Quartet, op. 5, II (1909)
10. Anton Webern, Five Movements for String Quartet, op. 5, III (1909)
11. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Angst und Hoffen, no. 7 from Book of the Hanging Gardens, op. 15 (1909)
12. Alban Berg (1885-1935), Schlafend tragt man mich, no. 2 from Four Songs, op. 2 (1908-1909)
13. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Agnus Dei, from Mass (194-48)
14. Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), Interlude in G, from Ludus tonalis (1942)
15. Paul Hindemith, Vom Tode Maria I, from Das Marienleben (1923)
16. Charles Ives (187401954), The Things Our Fathers Loved, from 114 Songs (ca. 1917)
17. Charles Ives, The Cage, from 114 Songs (1906)
18. Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), Diaphonic Suite no. 4, III (1930)
19. Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975), Contrapunctus secundus, no. 5 from Quaderno musicale di Annalibera (1952-53)
20. Luigi Dallapiccola, Quartina, no. 11 from Quaderno musicale di Annalibera (1952-53)
21. Anton Webern (1883-1945), Wie bin ich froh, no. 1 from Drei Lieder, op. 25 (1935)
22. Anton Webern, Piano Variations, op. 27, II (1935-36)
23. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Klavierstuck, op. 33a (1929)
24. Igor Sravinsky (1882-1971), Lacrimosa, from Requiem Canticles (1966)
25. Pierre Boulez (b. 1925), Structures Ia, mm. 1-39 (1952)
26. Milton Babbitt (b. 1916), Composition for Twelve Instruments, mm. 1-26 (1948)
27. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Turangalia Symphony, Introduction, reh. 12-22 (1946-48)
28. Elliott Carter (b. 1908), String Quartet no. 2, I, mm. 35-134 (1959)
29. Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928), Stimmung (three pages: Formschema, one sample page of Modelle, and one sample page of Magische Namen) (1968)
30. John Cage (1912-1992), Winter Music (one page) (1957)
31. Witold Lutoslowski (1913-1994), Jeux venitiens, I (1960-61)
32. Gyoergy Ligeti (1923-2006), Ramifications, mm. 1-44 (1968-69)
33. George Rochberg (1918-2005), Music for the Magic Theater, reh. 1-17 (1965)
34. Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Sinfonia, III (In ruhig fliessender Bewegung), mm. 1-120 (to reh. F) (1968)
35. George Crumb (b. 1923), Dream Images (Love-Death-Music), no. 11 from Makrokosmos, vol. 1 (1972-73)
36. Steve Reich (b. 1936), Violin Phase (1967)
37. Louis Andriessen (b. 1939), De Staat, mm. 1-161 (1972-76)
39. Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964), Spring Song, mm. 1-41 (1995)
40. Thomas Ades (b. 1971), Aslya, II, mm. 1-43 (1997)
41. Kaija Saariaho (b. 1952), Ariel's Hail (2000)
Acknowledgment of Sources