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Modern music : a concise history /
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...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Thames and Hudson,
c1994.
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| Edition: | Rev. ed. |
| Series: | World of art.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Griffiths, Paul. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Modern music : |b a concise history / |c Paul Griffiths. |
| 250 | |a Rev. ed. | ||
| 260 | |a [London] : |b Thames and Hudson, |c c1994. | ||
| 300 | |a 216 p. : |b ill., mus. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a World of art | |
| 500 | |a First published in 1978 as: Modern music: a concise history from Debussy to Boulez. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-205) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Ch. 1. Prelude -- Ch. 2. The late Romantic background -- Ch. 3. New harmony -- Ch. 4. New rhythm, new form -- Ch. 5. The genius of place -- Ch. 6. Neoclassicism -- Ch. 7. Serialism -- Ch. 8. The modern world -- Ch. 9. To the east -- Ch. 10. Serialism continued -- Ch. 11. Electronics -- Ch. 12. Chance -- Ch. 13. The theatre and politics -- Ch. 14. Minimalism and multiplicity. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 520 | 8 | |a 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. | |
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| 740 | 0 | 1 | |a Concise history of avant-garde music. |
| 740 | 0 | 1 | |a Modern music: a concise history from Debussy to Boulez. |
| 830 | 0 | |a World of art. | |
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