| Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ebook | Library Services | ebooks | Available |
9780199792283
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Over three decades, this has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War. The disruptions of the war, and the struggles of 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 Stockhausen'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 haven't yet stopped unfolding. This constant expansion of musical thinking since 1945 has left us with no singular history of music; the author's study accordingly follows several different paths, showing how and why they converge and diverge.
2021
There are no comments on this title.