Modern Music and After - Directions Since 1945

by Paul Griffiths

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This fully revised new edition re-establishes Paul Griffiths'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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198165110

ISBN13:9780198165118

Release Date:April 1996

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:388 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 9.1" x 6.2"

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