Paul Griffiths

Modern Music and After (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Over three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re-establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. 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 reformation of compositional technique and in John Cage's development of zen music; in Milton Babbitt's settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovich's unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausen'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 haven't yet stopped unfolding. This constant expansion of musical thinking since 1945 has left us with no singular history of music; Griffiths's study accordingly follows several different paths, showing how and why they converge and diverge. This new edition of Modern Music and After discusses not only the music of the fifteen years that have passed since the previous edition, but also the recent explosion of scholarly interest in the latter half of the twentieth century. In particular, the book has been expanded to incorporate the variety of responses to the modernist impasse experienced by composers of the 1980s and 1990s. Griffiths then moves the book into the twenty-first century as he examines such highly influential composers as Helmut Lachenmann and Salvatore Sciarrino. For its breadth, wealth of detail, and characteristic wit and clarity, the third edition of Modern Music and After is required reading for the student and the enquiring listener.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199792283
• Artikelnr.: 38149757

Autorenporträt

Paul Griffiths is an acclaimed writer on contemporary and classical music whose books include A Concise History of Western Music and The Penguin Companion to Classical Music. He is also known as a librettist (Elliott Carter's What Next?) and novelist. In 2002, Griffiths was honored by the French government as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prelude * 1.: Rational and irrational: western Europe, 1945
50 * Paris, 1945
8
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
Home
made music
Wolpe
After silence * 5.: The Cold War * 6.: Extension and development: western Europe, 1953
6 * From points to groups
Systems of organization
Le Marteau sans maître
Sound and word
...how time passes...
Statistics * 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 * 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 * Ochestras
Computer Music * 15.: Minimalism and melody * New York minimalism
Minimalism in Europe
Melody * 16.: Ending * * 17.: Holy Minimalisms * Pärt
Tavener and Górecki
(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.: Eclecticisms * Kagel et al.
Donatoni
Bolcom and Adams
Ligeti * 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 Buddha
Grisey and rebirth * 28.: Towards change? * Resources * Index