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Cover; Contents; Prelude; 1945; 1. Rational and Irrational: Western Europe, 1945-50; Paris, 1945-48; The Young Boulez; Boulezs Second Piano Sonata; Other Stories; Musique Concrte; Variations: Nono; 2. Silencing Music: Cage, 1946-52; Rhythmic Structuring; Towards Silence; Around Cage; 3. Total Organization: Western Europe, 1949-54; 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: Barraqu.;Over three decades, Paul Griffithss 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 Boulezs radical reformation of compositional technique and in John Cages development of zen music; in Milton Babbitts settling of the serial system and in Dmitry Shostakovichs unsettling symphonies; in Karlheinz Stockhausens de.

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Modern Music and After
Modern Music and After

Paul Griffiths

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Griffiths, Paul, 1947 Nov. 24
Modern music and after / Paul Griffiths.3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-974050-5
1. Music20th centuryHistory and criticism.
I. Title.
ML197.G76 2010
780.904dc22 2009047959

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Music Acknowledgments

Examples are reproduced by kind permission of copyright holders or their agents as indicated. All rights are reserved by those copyright holders, and international copyright secured.

Pierre Boulez, Sonatina for flute and piano (1946) Amphion Editions Musicales; by permission of Les Editions Durand

Pierre Boulez, Piano Sonata No. 2 (194648): I Editions Heugel

Luigi Nono, Variazioni canoniche for orchestra (1950) Ricordi (Milan)

John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (194648): I Henmar Press Inc., New York; by permission of Peters Edition London Ltd.

John Cage, Music of Changes for piano (1951): I Henmar Press Inc., New York; by permission of Peters Edition London Ltd.

Morton Feldman, Projection II for five players (1951) C. F. Peters Corporation, New York; by permission of Peters Edition Ltd.

Earle Brown, December 1952 1961 (renewed) Associated Music Publishers, Inc. (BMI)

Olivier Messiaen, Mode de valeurs et dintensits for piano (194950) 1950 Editions Durand

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kreuzspiel for six players (1951) Universal Edition

Pierre Boulez, Structures Ib for two pianos (195152) Universal Edition

Luigi Nono, Y su sangre ya viene cantando for flute and chamber orchestra (1952) Schott Music

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Studie II in electronic sounds (1954) Stockhausen Verlag

Jean Barraqu, Piano Sonata (195052) 1993 Brenreiter-Verlag Karl Vtterle GmbH & Co. KG, Kassel

Elliott Carter, String Quartet No. 1 (195051): II 1995 G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP)

Milton Babbitt, Three Compositions for Piano (1947): I Boelke-Bomart/Alfred A. Kalmus

Conlon Nancarrow, Study No. 5 for player piano (early 1950s) Schott Music

Stefan Wolpe, Oboe Quartet (1955): IV 1976 Josef Marx Music Company

Gyrgy Ligeti, Musica ricercata for piano (195153): III Schott Music

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontra-Punkte for ten players (195253) Universal Edition

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klavierstck III (1952) Universal Edition

Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans matre for contralto and six players (195355): I Universal Edition

Luigi Nono: Il canto sospeso for solo singers, choir, and orchestra (195556): II Schott Music

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Zeitmasze for woodwind quintet (195556) Universal Edition

John Cage, Concert for Piano and Orchestra (195758) Henmar Press Inc., New York; by permission of Peters Edition London Ltd.

Pierre Boulez, Piano Sonata No. 3 (195657): Trope Universal Edition

Luciano Berio, Circles for female singer, harpist, and two percussionists (1960) Universal Edition

Jean Barraqu: au del du hasard for five groups (195859) 1993 Brenreiter-Verlag Karl Vtterle GmbH & Co. KG, Kassel

Igor Stravinsky, Movements for piano and orchestra (195859) 1960 Hawkes & Son (London) Ltd.

Olivier Messiaen, Rveil des oiseaux for piano and orchestra (1953) 1955 Editions Durand

Olivier Messiaen, Sept Haka for piano and small orchestra (1962) Editions Leduc

Giacinto Scelsi, String Quartet No. 4 (1964) 1984 Editions Salabert

Sylvano Bussotti, Per tre sul piano (1959) Universal Edition

Mauricio Kagel, Anagrama for solo singers, speaking choir, and ensemble (195758) Universal Edition

Gyrgy Kurtg, The Sayings of Pter Bornemisza for soprano and piano (196368) Universal Edition

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontakte for piano, percussion, and electronic sounds (195860) Stockhausen Verlag

Peter Maxwell Davies, Taverner, opera (196270): final scene 1972 Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Monologe for two pianos (196064) Schott Music

Luciano Berio, Sinfonia for eight voices and orchestra (196869): III Universal Edition

Harrison Birtwistle, Verses for Ensembles (1969) Universal Edition

Mauricio Kagel, Match for two cellos and percussion (1964) Universal Edition

Cornelius Cardew, Treatise (196367) Hinrichsen Edition; by permission of Peters Edition London Ltd.

Cornelius Cardew, Soon (1971) Estate of Cornelius Cardew

Luciano Berio, Sequenza III for female voice (196566) Universal Edition

Heinz Holliger, Siebengesang for oboe and orchestra (196667): opening oboe solo Schott Music

Helmut Lachenmann, Pression for cello (196970) 1972 Musikverlage Hans Gerig, Kln, assigned 1980 to Breitkopf & Hrtel, Wiesbaden

Iannis Xenakis, Evryali for piano (1974) 1973 Editions Salabert

Milton Babbitt, Post-Partitions for piano (1966) C. F. Peters Corporation, New York; by permission of Peters Edition Ltd.

La Monte Young, The Well-Tuned Piano (1964), reproduced from an article by Kyle Gann in Perspectives of New Music by permission of author and editor

Steve Reich, Violin Phase for four violins (1967) Universal Edition

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