The new music : the avant-garde since 1945 /

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Main Author: Brindle, Reginald Smith, 1917-2003
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Historical Background 1
  • 2 The Post-War Years 3
  • 3 The Webern Cult 7
  • 4 The 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 The 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 The Avant-Garde and Society 182
  • Some New Notation Symbols 203.