Modern Music and After - 3rd Edition

Zusatztext continues usefully to draw attention to a wide range of works and concepts Informationen zum Autor Paul Griffiths is an acclaimed writer on contemporary and classical music whose books include A Concise History of Western Music and The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and has written the libretto for Elliott Carter's What Next? as well as three novels. In 2002, Griffiths was honored by the French government as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Klappentext Over the course of three decades, Modern Music and After has earned its place as the standard work on the processes of musical renewal that began in 1945. It is essential reading for the enquiring listener, and is used widely in university and conservatory courses. Zusammenfassung Over the course of three decades, Modern Music and After has earned its place as the standard work on the processes of musical renewal that began in 1945. It is essential reading for the enquiring listener, and is used widely in university and conservatory courses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prelude 1.: Rational and irrational: western Europe, 1945-50 Paris, 1945-8 - The young Boulez - Boulez's Second Piano Sonata - Other stories - Musique concrète - Variations: Nono 2.: Silencing music: Cage, 1946-52 Rhythmic structuring - Towards silence - Around Cage 3.: Total organization: western Europe, 1949-54 The moment of total serialism 1: Darmstadt 1949 and Darmstadt 1951 - Interlude: the patrons of modernism - The moment of total serialism 2: Paris 1952 - The human voice 1: Nono - Electronic music - The human voice 2: Barraqué 4.: Classic modernism and other kinds: the United States, 1945-55 Schoenberg - Carter - Babbitt - Home-made music - Wolpe - After silence 5.: The Cold War 6.: Extension and development: western Europe, 1953-6 From points to groups - Systems of organization - Le Marteau sans maître - Sound and word - ...how time passes... - Statistics 7.: Mobile form: 1956-61 Cage - Stockhausen and Boulez - Boulez and Berio - Barraqué - Exit from the labyrinth 8.: Elder responses Stravinsky - Messiaen - Varèse - Symphonists and others 9.: Reappraisal and disintegration: 1959-64 Questioning voices: Ligeti, Bussotti, Kagel - Stumbling steps: Kurtág - Listening ears: Cage, Young, Babbitt - Exploiting the moment: Stockhausen - The last concert: Nono 10.: Of elsewhen and elsewhere The distant past - (The imaginary past) - The distant or not so distant east - Quotation - Meta-music 11.: Music theatre Opera and 'Opera' - Music theatre - Instrumental theatre 12.: Politics Cardew - Rzewski - The composer in the factory 13.: Virtuosity and improvisation The virtuoso - Virtuosity in question - The electric musician - Improvisation 14.: Orchestras or Computers Ochestras - Computer Music 15.: Minimalism and melody New York minimalism - Minimalism in Europe - Melody 16.: Ending 17.: Holy Minimalisms Pärt - Tavener and Górecki - (Messiaen) - Ustvolskaya 18.: New Romanticisms Rihm - Schnittke, and the hectic present - Gubaidulina, and the visionary future - Silvestrov, and the reverberating past - Symphony? - Feldman and loss - Lachenmann and regain 19.: New Simplicities Cage, or innocence - Denyer, or outsiderness - Kurtág, or immediacy - Holliger, or extremity - Sciarrino, or intimacy 20.: New Complexities Ferneyhough - Finnissy - Charged solos 21.: Old Complexities Carter and the poets - Xenakis and the Arditti Quartet - Nono and listening - Stockhausen and Licht - Birtwistle and ritual - Berio and memory - IRCAM and Boulez 22.: Spectralisms Radulescu and Tenney - Grisey - Vivier 23.: (Unholy?) Minimalisms...

Product details

• Authors: Paul Griffiths
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780199740505
• ISBN: 978-0-19-974050-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 32 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history