Modern music and after / Paul Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Paul, 1947 Nov. 24-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Music.

Physical Description:

xvii, 456 p. : ill.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Summary:

Over the course of three decades, Modern Music and After has earned its place as the standard work on the processes of musical renewal that began in 1945. It is essential reading for the enquiring listener, and is used widely in university and conservatory courses.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Prelude

1945

1. Rational and Irrational: Western Europe, 1945-50

Paris, 1945-48

The Young Boulez

Boulez's Second Piano Sonata

Other Stories

Musique Concrète

Variations: Nono

2. Silencing Music: Cage, 1946-52

Rhythmic Structuring

Towards Silence

Around Cage

3. Total Organization: Western Europe, 1949-54

The Moment of Total Serialism 1: Darmstadt 1949 and Darmstadt 1951

Interlude: The Patrons of Modernism

The Moment of Total Serialism 2: Paris 1952

The Human Voice 1: Nono

Electronic Music

The Human Voice 2: Barraqué

4. Classic Modernism and Other Kinds: The United States, 1945-55

Schoenberg

Carter

Babbitt

Homemade Music

Wolpe

After Silence

5. The Cold War

6. Extension and Development: Western Europe, 1953-56

From Points to Groups

Systems of Organization

Le Marteau sans maître

Sound and Word

. . . how time passes . . .

Statistics

1956

7. Mobile Form: 1956-61

Cage

Stockhausen and Boulez

Boulez and Berio

Barraqué

Exit from the Labyrinth

8. Elder Responses

Stravinsky

Messiaen

Varèse

Symphonists and Others

9. Reappraisal and Disintegration: 1959-64

Questioning Voices: Ligeti, Bussotti, Kagel

Stumbling Steps: Kurtág

Listening Ears: Cage, Young, Babbitt

Exploiting the Moment: Stockhausen

The Last Concert: Nono

1965

10. Of Elsewhen and Elsewhere

The Distant Past

(The Imaginary Past)

The Distant or Not So Distant East

Quotation

Meta-Music

11. Music Theatre

Opera and 'Opera'

Music Theatre

Instrumental Theatre

12. Politics

Cardew

Rzewski

The Composer in the Factory

13. Virtuosity and Improvisation

The Virtuoso

Virtuosity in Question

The Electric Musician

Improvisation

14. Orchestras or Computers

Orchestras.

Computer Music

15. Minimalism and Melody

New York Minimalism

Minimalism in Europe

Melody

16. Ending

1975

17. Holy Minimalisms

Pärt

Górecki and Tavener

(Messiaen)

Ustvolskaya

18. New Romanticisms

Rihm

Schnittke, and the Hectic Present

Gubaidulina, and the Visionary Future

Silvestrov, and the Reverberating Past

Symphony?

Feldman and Loss

Lachenmann and Regain

19. New Simplicities

Cage, or Innocence

Denyer, or Outsiderness

Kurtág, or Immediacy

Holliger, or Extremity

Sciarrino, or Intimacy

20. New Complexities

Ferneyhough

Finnissy

Charged Solos

21. Old Complexities

Carter and the Poets

Xenakis and the Arditti Quartet

Nono and Listening

Stockhausen and Licht

Birtwistle and Ritual

Berio and Memory

IRCAM and Boulez

22. Spectralisms

Radulescu and Tenney

Grisey

Vivier

23. (Unholy?) Minimalisms

Reich

Andriessen

24. Referencings

Kagel, et al.

Donatoni

Bolcom and Adams

Ligeti

1989

25. Towards Mode/Meme

Rootless Routes: Ligeti

Memory's Memorials: Berio and Kurtág

Remade Modes: Adams, Adès, Benjamin

Pesson's Past and Pauset's

Traditions' Tracks: Around Zorn

26. Towards the Strange Self

Act I: Schneewittchen

Entr'acte: Kurtág's Beckett

Act II: Luci mie traditrici

Entr'acte: Birtwistle's Celan

Act III: Three Sisters

Entr'acte: Kyburz's No-one

Act IV: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern

27. Towards Transcendence

Gubaidulina and Christ

Haas and Darkness

Harvey and the Goddess

Grisey and Rebirth

Riehm and Reality

2001

28. Towards Change?

Resources

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-439) and index.

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ISBN:

0199792283

9780199792283

OCLC:

730941193