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Modern Music and After (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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Modern Music and After (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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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 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 Karl Stockhausen's 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. This constant expansion of musical thinking since 1945
has left us with no singular history of music; Griffiths's study
accordingly follows several different paths, showing how and why
they converge and diverge. This new edition of Modern Music and
After discusses not only the music of the fifteen years that have
passed since the previous edition, but also the recent explosion of
scholarly interest in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. In
particular, the third section of the book, 1980-1990, is expanded
to incorporate the variety of responses to the modernist impasse
experienced by composers of the time. In addition, a new fourth
part, "After Postmodernism: the 1990s and 2000s," examines highly
influential composers like Philip Glass and Pierre Boulez as well
as such topics as "Modernist Continuation" and "Music and the
Internet." For its breadth, wealth of detail, and characteristic
wit and clarity, the third edition of Modern Music and After is
required reading for the student and the enquiring listener.
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