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Modern Music and After
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Modern Music and After Hardcover - 1995

by Paul Griffiths

From the publisher

This fully revised new edition re-establishes Paul Griffith's survey as the definitive study of music since the Second World War. 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 re-forming of compositional technique and in John Cage's move into zen music, in Milton Babbitt's settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich's unsettling symphonies, in Karlheinz Stochausen'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 have continued to unfold. This constant expansion of musical thinking since 1945 has left us with no single history of music. We live' as Griffiths says, among many simultaneous histories'. His study accordingly follows several different paths, showing how they converge and diverge.

Details

  • Title Modern Music and After
  • Author Paul Griffiths
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 1995-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780198165781 / 0198165781
  • Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.06 in (24.13 x 16.51 x 2.69 cm)
  • Reading level 1580
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - 20th century - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-13369
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.904

About the author


The author of numerous books on music, and for many years chief music critic on The Times, Paul Griffiths now writes regularly for The New Yorker. He is the author of Bartok (Master Musicians Series, J.M. Dent, 1984), Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th-Century Music (1986), Stravinsky (Master
Musicians, 1992), and a contributor toThe Oxford Illustrated History of Opera (1994).

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