Modern music
a concise history
Rev. ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Griffiths, Paul, 1947 Nov. 24- - Contributor
Publication
1994 - Thames and Hudson, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1122840M
- ISBN-100500202788
- OCLC Control Number502603505
- OCLC Control Number31394378
- Internet Archivemodernmusicconci0000grif
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- Library of Congress Control Number94060288
- Goodreads2018954
- LibraryThing103162
Classifications
- DDC780/.9/04
- LCCML197 .G74 1994
Description
Beginning at the threshold of the modern era, with the late Romanticism of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music through composers such as Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese and Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Philip Glass and Elliott Carter. The various paths are made clear by a concentration on the major works and turningpoints in the music of our time: the new rhythmic force that came in with The Rite of Spring, the unbounded universe of Schoenberg's atonality, the undreamed-of possibilities opened up by electronics, the role of chance in the music of John Cage and the astonishing diversity of minimalism.
Subjects
Series Statement
- World of art
Other Editions
- Modern music
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