Modern Music and After
- Author: Griffiths, Paul
continues usefully to draw attention to a wide range of works and concepts —
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Contents
- Prelude
- 1. Rational and irrational: western Europe, 1945-50
- Paris, 1945-8 - The young Boulez - Boulez's Second Piano Sonata - Other stories - Musique concrete - 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: Barraque
- 4. Classic modernism and other kinds: the United States, 1945-55
- Schoenberg - Carter - Babbitt - Home-made music - Wolpe - After silence
- 5. The Cold War
- 6. Extension and development: western Europe, 1953-6
- From points to groups - Systems of organization - Le Marteau sans maitre - Sound and word - ...how time passes... - Statistics
- 7. Mobile form: 1956-61
- Cage - Stockhausen and Boulez - Boulez and Berio - Barraque - Exit from the labyrinth
- 8. Elder responses
- Stravinsky - Messiaen - Varese - Symphonists and others
- 9. Reappraisal and disintegration: 1959-64
- Questioning voices: Ligeti, Bussotti, Kagel - Stumbling steps: Kurtag - Listening ears: Cage, Young, Babbitt - Exploiting the moment: Stockhausen - The last concert: Nono
- 10. Of elsewhen and elsewhere
- The distant past - (The imaginary past) - The distant or not so distant east - Quotation - Meta-music
- 11. Music theatre
- Opera and 'Opera' - Music theatre - Instrumental theatre
- 12. Politics
- Cardew - Rzewski - The composer in the factory
- 13. Virtuosity and improvisation
- The virtuoso - Virtuosity in question - The electric musician - Improvisation
- 14. Orchestras or Computers
- Ochestras - Computer Music
- 15. Minimalism and melody
- New York minimalism - Minimalism in Europe - Melody
- 16. Ending
- 17. Holy Minimalisms
- Part - Tavener and Gorecki - (Messiaen) - Ustvolskaya
- 18. New Romanticisms
- Rihm - Schnittke, and the hectic present - Gubaidulina, and the visionary future - Silvestrov, and the reverberating past - Symphony? - Feldman and loss - Lachenmann and regain
- 19. New Simplicities
- Cage, or innocence - Denyer, or outsiderness - Kurtag, or immediacy - Holliger, or extremity - Sciarrino, or intimacy
- 20. New Complexities
- Ferneyhough - Finnissy - Charged solos
- 21. Old Complexities
- Carter and the poets - Xenakis and the Arditti Quartet - Nono and listening - Stockhausen and Licht - Birtwistle and ritual - Berio and memory - IRCAM and Boulez
- 22. Spectralisms
- Radulescu and Tenney - Grisey - Vivier
- 23. (Unholy?) Minimalisms
- Reich - Andriessen
- 24. Eclecticisms
- Kagel et al. - Donatoni - Bolcom and Adams - Ligeti
- 25. . Towards mode/meme
- Rootless routes: Ligeti - Memory's memorials: Berio and Kurtag - Remade modes: Adams, Ades, Benjamin - Pesson's past and Pauset's - Traditions' tracks: around Zorn
- 26. Towards the strange self
- 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
- 27. Towards transcendence
- Gubaidulina and Christ - Haas and darkness - Harvey and the Buddha - Grisey and rebirth
- 28. Towards change?
- Resources
- Index