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The new music : the avant-garde since 1945 / Reginald Smith Brindle.

By: Brindle, Reginald Smith, 1917-2003 [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1977Copyright date: ©1975Description: 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0193154242 (paperback) .Subject(s): Music -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 780.904
Contents:
The historical background -- The post-war years -- The Webern cult -- The avant-garde: pointillism -- Integral serialism -- Numbers -- Free twelve-tone music -- Indeterminacy, chance, and aleatory music -- Improvisation - graphic scores - text scores -- Concrete music -- Electronic music -- Cage and other Americans -- The search ouwards - the Orient, jazz, archaisms -- Theatre -- Colour: new instrumental usages -- Vocal music: the new choralism -- Notation -- The avant-garde and society.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.904 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00168738
Total holds: 0

Includes index.

The historical background -- The post-war years -- The Webern cult -- The avant-garde: pointillism -- Integral serialism -- Numbers -- Free twelve-tone music -- Indeterminacy, chance, and aleatory music -- Improvisation - graphic scores - text scores -- Concrete music -- Electronic music -- Cage and other Americans -- The search ouwards - the Orient, jazz, archaisms -- Theatre -- Colour: new instrumental usages -- Vocal music: the new choralism -- Notation -- The avant-garde and society.

Dr. Geoffrey Spratt Collection.