The new music : the avant-garde since 1945 / Reginald Smith Brindle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brindle, Reginald Smith, 1917-2003.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

ix unnumbered pages, 222 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Summary:

This guide to the more adventurous evolutions of music since 1945 -- pointillism, post-Webernism, integral serialism, free dodecaphony, aleatory and indeterminate music, graphics, concrete music, electronic music, 'theatre' -- was first published in 1975 and has been reprinted several times. For this second edition Reginald Smith Brindle has added a new chapter reviewing developments over the decade or so since the book was first published. He discusses the decline of experimentalism and the reaction against increasing cerebralism and complexity as variously illustrated by the more recent works of Stockhausen, the 'minimalist' works of Reich and Glass, and the partial return to romanticism. He also reviews the technological revolution which has taken place in computer music, and concludes that the future of music will for the time being be most closely associated with technological change and development, rather than with radical change in compositional techniques.

Contents:

1 The Historical Background 1

2 The Post-War Years 3

3 The Webern Cult 7

4 The Avant-Garde

Pointillism 15

5 Integral Serialism 21

6 Numbers 42

7 Free Twelve-Note Music 52

8 Indeterminacy, Chance, and Aleatory Music 60

9 Improvisation

Graphic Scores

Text Scores 81

10 Concrete Music 99

11 Electronic Music 104

12 Cage and Other Americans 121

13 The Search Outwards

The Orient, Jazz, Archaisms 133

14 Theatre 146

15 Colour

New Instrumental Usages 153

16 Vocal Music

The New Choralism 163

17 Notation 175

18 The Avant-Garde and Society 182

Some New Notation Symbols 203.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0193154714 :

0193154684

OCLC:

15082250