Modern music : the avant garde since 1945 / Paul Griffiths.
| Author/creator |
Griffiths, Paul, 1947 November 24- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London : Dent, 1981. |
| Description | 331 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Prelude: music in 1945 -- Part I. The serial ascendancy. Paris, 1945-8 -- New York, 1948-50 -- Darmstadt/Paris, 1951-2 -- New York, 1951-3 -- Cologne, 1953-4 -- The avant-garde achievement, 1954-8 -- Chance and choice -- Moments of pairing -- Part II. Music in the 1960s and 1970s. American serialsim, computer music -- Indeterminacy, changing the system -- Quotation, integration -- Virtuosity, improvisation -- Opera, music theatre -- Series, melody -- Postlude. |
| Abstract | A look at music since 1945 focuses on the development of new instrument technology, the theory of serialism, and the use of chance or choice in composition. |
| Bibliography note | Includes discographies. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-317) and index. |
| LCCN | 80143086 |
| ISBN | 046004365X : |
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