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Modern Music A Concise History

Paperback • 1994 • English

Modern Music A Concise History

By Paul Griffiths

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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 unb...Show more

Theory of music and musicology
History of music
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ISBN

9780500202784

Publisher

Thames and Hudson

Published year

1994

Language

English

Original title

Modern Music A Concise History

Format

Paperback

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