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.
PRELUDE; PARIS, 1945-8 - THE YOUNG BOULEZ - BOULEZ'S SECOND PIANO SONATA - OTHER STORIES - MUSIQUE CONCRETE - VARIATIONS: NONO; RHYTHMIC STRUCTURING - TOWARDS SILENCE - AROUND CAGE; 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: BARRAQUE; SCHOENBERG - CARTER - BABBITT - HOME-MADE MUSIC - WOLPE - AFTER SILENCE; FROM POINTS TO GROUPS - SYSTEMS OF ORGANIZATION - LE MARTEAU SANS MAITRE - SOUND AND WORD - ...HOW TIME PASSES... - STATISTICS; CAGE - STOCKHAUSEN AND BOULEZ - BOULEZ AND BERIO - BARRAQUE - EXIT FROM THE LABYRINTH; STRAVINSKY - MESSIAEN - VARESE - SYMPHONISTS AND OTHERS; QUESTIONING VOICES: LIGETI, BUSSOTTI, KAGEL - STUMBLING STEPS: KURTAG - LISTENING EARS: CAGE, YOUNG, BABBITT - EXPLOITING THE MOMENT: STOCKHAUSEN - THE LAST CONCERT: NONO; THE DISTANT PAST - (THE IMAGINARY PAST) - THE DISTANT OR NOT SO DISTANT EAST - QUOTATION - META-MUSIC; OPERA AND 'OPERA' - MUSIC THEATRE - INSTRUMENTAL THEATRE; CARDEW - RZEWSKI - THE COMPOSER IN THE FACTORY; THE VIRTUOSO - VIRTUOSITY IN QUESTION - THE ELECTRIC MUSICIAN - IMPROVISATION; OCHESTRAS - COMPUTER MUSIC; NEW YORK MINIMALISM - MINIMALISM IN EUROPE - MELODY; PART - TAVENER AND GORECKI - (MESSIAEN) - USTVOLSKAYA; RIHM - SCHNITTKE, AND THE HECTIC PRESENT - GUBAIDULINA, AND THE VISIONARY FUTURE - SILVESTROV, AND THE REVERBERATING PAST - SYMPHONY? - FELDMAN AND LOSS - LACHENMANN AND REGAIN; CAGE, OR INNOCENCE - DENYER, OR OUTSIDERNESS - KURTAG, OR IMMEDIACY - HOLLIGER, OR EXTREMITY - SCIARRINO, OR INTIMACY; FERNEYHOUGH - FINNISSY - CHARGED SOLOS; CARTER AND THE POETS - XENAKIS AND THE ARDITTI QUARTET - NONO AND LISTENING - STOCKHAUSEN AND LICHT - BIRTWISTLE AND RITUAL - BERIO AND MEMORY - IRCAM AND BOULEZ; RADULESCU AND TENNEY - GRISEY - VIVIER; REICH - ANDRIESSEN; KAGEL ET AL. - DONATONI - BOLCOM AND ADAMS - LIGETI; ROOTLESS ROUTES: LIGETI - MEMORY'S MEMORIALS: BERIO AND KURTAG - REMADE MODES: ADAMS, ADES, BENJAMIN - PESSON'S PAST AND PAUSET'S - TRADITIONS' TRACKS: AROUND ZORN; ACT I: SCHNEEWITTCHEN - ENTR'ACTE: KURTAG'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 MADCHEN MIT DEN SCHWEFELHOLZERN; GUBAIDULINA AND CHRIST - HAAS AND DARKNESS - HARVEY AND THE BUDDHA - GRISEY AND REBIRTH; RESOURCES; INDEX
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