Modern Music: A Concise History (World of Art) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Modern Music: A Concise History (World of Art) Book

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. The various paths are made clear by a concentration on the major works and turning points in the music of our time: the new rhythmic force that came in with The Rite of Springthe unbounded universe of Schoenberg's atonalitythe undreamed-of possibilities opened up by electronics The role of chance in the music of John Cage and the astonishing diversity of minimalism.In addition to the text, there are numerous musical examples & photos throughout the book.Read More

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  • 0500202788
  • 9780500202784
  • Paul Griffiths
  • 5 September 1994
  • Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 216
  • 2nd Revised edition
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