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Modern music and after / Paul Griffiths.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Griffiths, Paul, 1947 November 24-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2010.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Music
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1945
  • Rational and irrational : Western Europe, 1945-50
  • Silencing music : Cage, 1946-52
  • Total organization : Western Europe, 1949-54
  • Classic modernism and other kinds : the United States, 1945-55
  • The Cold War
  • Extension and development : Western Europe, 1953-56
  • 1956
  • Mobile form : 1956-61
  • Elder responses
  • Reappraisal and disintegration : 1959-64
  • 1965
  • Of elsewhen and elsewhere e-- Music theatre
  • Politics
  • Virtuosity and improvisation
  • Orchestras and computers
  • Minimalism and melody
  • Ending
  • 1975
  • Holy minimalisms
  • New romanticisms
  • New simplicities
  • New complexities
  • Old complexities
  • Spectralisms
  • (Unholy?) minimalisms
  • Referencings
  • 1989
  • Towards mode/meme
  • Towards the strange self
  • Towards transcendence
  • 2001
  • Towards change?

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