Modern Music and After: Directions Since 1945

Having examined the main lines of musical change in the immediate post-war period, Paul Griffiths investigates the diverse directions taken by over 50 composers since 1960, from computer music to opera. Published for the first time in paperback this fully revised and reset edition of Modern Music: The Avant-Garde since 1945 contains an entirely new section on the 1980s to the present.