Modern Music and AfterOver three decades, Paul Griffiths's survey has remained the definitive study of music since the Second World War; this fully revised and updated edition re establishes Modern Music and After as the preeminent introduction to the music of our time. 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