Modern music and after /
Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Summary: | Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of the ensuing peace, were reflected in the music of the time: in Pierre Boulez's radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage's development of zen music; in Milton Babbitt's settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich's unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausen's de. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 456 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-439) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199792283 0199792283 9781283121286 128312128X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |