disc 1. 20th century music: be afraid no longer! -- Setting the table and parsing out blame -- Debussy and Le Français in musical action -- Russia and Igor Stravinsky -- disc 2. Stravinsky's The rite of Spring -- Paradox of Arnold Schoenberg -- Emancipation of melody! -- Second Viennese school -- disc 3. The "New" classicism -- Schoenberg and the 12-tone method -- Synthesis and Nationalism: Béla Bartók -- America's musical gift -- disc 4. American Iconoclasts -- World turned upside down -- Electronic music and European Ultraserialism -- Schoenberg in exile -- disc 5. Stravinsky in America -- For every action an equal reaction -- California avant-garde -- Rock around the clock -- disc 6. East meets West: South meets North -- Postmodernism: new tonalty and eclecticism -- New pluralism -- Among friends.