| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Physical description |
222 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 Historical Background 1 -- 2 Post-War Years 3 -- 3 Webern Cult 7 -- 4 Avant-Garde--Pointillism 15 -- 5 Integral Serialism 21 -- 6 Numbers 42 -- 7 Free Twelve-Note Music 52 -- 8 Indeterminacy, Chance, and Aleatory Music 60 -- 9 Improvisation--Graphic Scores--Text Scores 81 -- 10 Concrete Music 99 -- 11 Electronic Music 104 -- 12 Cage and Other Americans 121 -- 13 Search Outwards--The Orient, Jazz, Archaisms 133 -- 14 Theatre 146 -- 15 Colour--New Instrumental Usages 153 -- 16 Vocal Music--The New Choralism 163 -- 17 Notation 175 -- 18 Avant-Garde and Society 182 -- Some New Notation Symbols 203. |
| Summary |
This guide to the more adventurous evolutions of music since 1945 -- pointillism, post-Webernism, integral serialism, free dodecaphony, aleatory and indeterminate music, graphics, concrete music, electronic music, 'theatre' -- was first published in 1975 and has been reprinted several times. For this second edition Reginald Smith Brindle has added a new chapter reviewing developments over the decade or so since the book was first published. He discusses the decline of experimentalism and the reaction against increasing cerebralism and complexity as variously illustrated by the more recent works of Stockhausen, the 'minimalist' works of Reich and Glass, and the partial return to romanticism. He also reviews the technological revolution which has taken place in computer music, and concludes that the future of music will for the time being be most closely associated with technological change and development, rather than with radical change in compositional techniques. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0193154684 (paperback) |
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0193154714 |
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