A Concise History Of Avant Garde Music
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Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
There has long been a need for an introduction to modern music for the general reader. This book fills that need. Beginning at the threshold between Romanticism and the modern era, with the music of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music. The various paths are made clear by a concentration on the major works and the major turning-points 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 undreamt-of possibilites opened up by electronics, the role of chance in the music of John Cage. Naturally the emphasis is on those composers who have contributed most to forming the widened musical outlook of today. Apart from those already mentioned, the book considers the music of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Charles Ives and the American experimentalists who followed him, Edgard Varese and Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. All are surveyed in a presentation which, without being technical, helps to explain how and why music has developed in the ways that it has. The illustrations include portraits, posters, costume designs, instruments and orchestras, as well as extracts from a wide variety of sources, many of which are beautiful as art objects in their own right.
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
There has long been a need for an introduction to modern music for the general reader. This book fills that need. Beginning at the threshold between Romanticism and the modern era, with the music of Debussy and Mahler, the author traces the new directions of music. The various paths are made clear by a concentration on the major works and the major turning-points 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 undreamt-of possibilites opened up by electronics, the role of chance in the music of John Cage. Naturally the emphasis is on those composers who have contributed most to forming the widened musical outlook of today. Apart from those already mentioned, the book considers the music of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, Charles Ives and the American experimentalists who followed him, Edgard Varese and Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez. All are surveyed in a presentation which, without being technical, helps to explain how and why music has developed in the ways that it has. The illustrations include portraits, posters, costume designs, instruments and orchestras, as well as extracts from a wide variety of sources, many of which are beautiful as art objects in their own right.
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780500202784 |
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 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.
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2006-06-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0521842948 |
Author | : David Glen Such |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781587292316 |
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : 9780500201640 |
Author | : Graham Hearn |
Publisher | : Mel Bay Publications |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012-03-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1619112388 |
A concise yet comprehensive survey of 20th Century music for both students and the general public. Written by Graham Hearn who states, my aim has been to highlight where composers have pushed boundaries, stretched our credibility and shown such leaps of imagination as to make us remember that the 20th Century is possibly the most extraordinary of them all.
Author | : Benjamin Piekut |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011-04-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520268512 |
A book about the links between avant garde music and the art scene in New York City in the 1960s. John Cage and Iggy Pop, together at last.
Author | : Michael Nyman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1999-07-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521653831 |
Composer Michael Nyman's classic 1974 account of the postwar experimental tradition in music.