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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Griffiths |
| ISBN: | 0198165110 9780198165118 0198165781 9780198165781 |
| OCLC Number: | 32237452 |
| Notes: | "Clarendon paperbacks"--Cover. Rev. ed. of: Modern music : the avant garde since 1945. 1981. |
| Description: | xv, 373 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Beginning again : from 1945 to the early 1960s. Europe I : commencement, 1945-1951 ; America 1 : silencing music, 1945-1952 ; Europe 2 : total organization, 1949-1954 ; America 2 : classic modernism ; Europe 3 : achievement, 1953-1957 ; America 3 : after silence, 1952-1961 ; Europe 4 : mobile form, 1956-1962 ; Elder responses ; Europe 5 : disintegrations, 1959-1964 -- Six waves and five masters : the 1960s and 1970s. Of elsewhen and elsewhere ; Music theatre ; Politics ; Virtuosity and improvisation ; Computer music ; Minimalism and melody ; Five masters -- Many rivers : the 1980s and 1990s. String and knots -- Postlude. |
| Other Titles: | Directions since 1945 |
| Responsibility: | Paul Griffiths. |
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Abstract:
Covers musical changes since World War II, and then reviews the work of 50 composers since 1960.
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