{"product_id":"modern-music-and-after-9780199740505","title":"Modern Music and After","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eModern Music and After \u003c\/em\u003eas the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles\u003cbr\u003eof 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\u003cbr\u003eStockhausen'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\u003cbr\u003ehaven't yet stopped unfolding. \u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003eModern Music and After\u003c\/em\u003e discusses not only the music of the fifteen\u003cbr\u003eyears 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\u003cbr\u003e1990s. Griffiths then moves the book into the twenty-first century as he examines such highly influential composers as Helmut Lachenmann and Salvatore Sciarrino. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor its breadth, wealth of detail, and characteristic wit and clarity, the third edition of \u003cem\u003eModern Music and After\u003c\/em\u003e is required reading for the student and the enquiring listener.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Griffiths\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199740505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Griffiths\u003c\/strong\u003e is an acclaimed writer on contemporary and classical music whose books include \u003cem\u003eA Concise History of Western Music\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Penguin Companion to Classical Music\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also known as a librettist (Elliott Carter's \u003cem\u003eWhat Next?\u003c\/em\u003e) and novelist. In 2002, Griffiths was honored by the French\u003cbr\u003egovernment as a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40092196929651,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_2654b09a-338e-4acb-8817-4315a25e679f.jpg?v=1652797079","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/modern-music-and-after-9780199740505","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}