Modern music and after /
Covers musical changes since World War II, and then reviews the work of 50 composers since 1960.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- I: Beginning again: from 1945 to the early 1960s
- Europe I: commencement, 1945-1951
- America 1: silencing music, 1945-1952
- Europe 2: total organization, 1949-1954
- America 2: classic modernism
- Europe 3: achievement, 1953-1957
- America 3: after silence, 1952-1961
- Europe 4: mobile form, 1956-1962
- Elder responses
- Europe 5: disintegrations, 1959-1964
- II: Six waves and five masters: the 1960s and 1970s
- Of elsewhen and elsewhere
- Music theatre
- Politics
- Virtuosity and improvisation
- Computer music
- Minimalism and melody
- Five masters
- III: Many rivers: the 1980s and 1990s
- String and knots.