Modern Music And After -

Paul Griffiths

Oxford University Press

2011

480 páginas

16h 0m

ISBN-10: 019974050X

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 Boulezs radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage s development of zen music; in Milton Babbitts settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich s unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausens development of electronic music and in Luigi Nono s pursuit of the universally human, in Iannis Xenakis s view of music as sounding mathematics and in Luciano Berio s consideration of it as language. The initiatives of these composers and their contemporaries opened prospects that haven t yet stopped unfolding.