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Ashby, Arved (red.): The Pleasure of Modernist Music, 2004. Rochester: University of Rochester Press.
Griffiths, Paul: Modern Music and After, 2010. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Helst 3. utgave.
Guldbrandsen, Erling E: "Modernist Composer and Mahler Conductor. Changing Conceptions of performativity in Boulez" i Studia Musicologica Norvegica No. 32: 2006. pp. 140-162.
Guldbrandsen, Erling E: "Kunstmusikk i perioden 1945-1960" i Hovland, Erlend (ed.): Vestens musikkhistorie, 2012. Cappelen Damm Akademiske. pp. 282-296.
Guldbrandsen, Erling E: "Kunstmusikk i perioden 1960-1975" i Hovland, Erlend (ed.): Vestens musikkhistorie, 2012. Cappelen Damm Akademiske. pp. 297-303.
Guldbrandsen, Erling E: "Kunstmusikk i perioden 1975-1990" i Hovland, Erlend (ed.): Vestens musikkhistorie, 2012. Cappelen Damm Akademiske. pp. 304-313.
Guldbrandsen, Erling E: "Kunstmusikk etter 1990" i Hovland, Erlend (ed.): Vestens musikkhistorie, Cappelen Damm Akademiske. pp. 314-325.
Heile, Björn (red.): The Modernist Legacy, 2009. Aldershot: Ashgat.
Metzer, David: Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, 2009. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Parsons, Ben: "Arresting Boulez: Post-War Modernism in Context" i Journal of the Royal Music Association, Vol 129, nr. 1 (2004), s. 161-176.
Further Reading
Adorno, Theodor W.: "vers une musique informelle" i Quasi una fantasia, 1992. London: Verso.
Adorno, Theodor W.: "Difficulties" i Essays on Music, 2002. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 644-680.
Adorno, Theodor W.: "The Aging of the New Music" i Essays on Music, 2002. California: University of California Press. pp. 181-202.
Adorno, Theodor W.: Philosophy of New Music, 2006, translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press.
Borio, Gianmario: "Dire cela, sans savoir quoi: The Question of Meaning in Adorno and the Musical Avant-Garde" i Berthold Hoeckner (ed.): Apparitions, 2006. London: Routledge. pp. 41-67.
Boulez, Pierre: "At the ends of fruitful land…" i Die Reihe 1, 1958. Vienna: Universal Edition. pp. 19-29.
Boulez, Pierre: "Aléa" i Stocktakings From an Apprenticeship, 1991. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 26-38.
Boulez, Pierre: "Possibly..." i Stocktakings From an Apprenticeship, 2001. Oxford, Clarendon Press. pp. 111-140.
Bürger, Peter: Theory of the Avant-Garde, 1984. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Cage, John: Silence. Lectures and Writings, 1961. Wesleyan.
Edwards, Peter: Tradition and the Endless Now: A Study of György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, 2012. PhD diss., UiO..
Ligeti, György: "Pierre Boulez. Decision and Automatism in ‘Structure 1a." i die Reihe 4, 1960. London: Universal Edition. pp. 36-62. Original German edition: Ligeti, György. 1958. ‘Entscheidung und Automatik in der Structure 1a’, Die Reihe 4 (Vienna: Universal Edition), pp. 38-63.
Ligeti, György: "Metamorphoses of Musical Form" i die Reihe 7, 1965. London: Universal Edition. pp. 5-19. Original German edition: Ligeti, György. 1960. ‘Wandlungen der musikalischen Form’, die Reihe 7. Vienna: Universal Edition A.G, pp. 5-17.
Ligeti, György: "Form" i Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik 10. Form in der Neuen Musik, ed. by Ernst Thomas, 1966. Mainz: Schott. English translation in: Dahlhaus, Carl and Katz, Ruth (eds.) 1992. Contemplating Music: Source Readings in the Aesthetics of Music (Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press), pp. 781-795.
Losada, Catherine: "The Process of Modulation in Musical Collage" i Music Analysis 27, July/October 2008. pp. 295–336.
Morgan, Robert P: "On the Analysis of Recent Music" i Critical Inquiry, 1977. vol. 4, no. 1 (autumn), pp. 33-53.
Williams, Alastair: "Mixing with Mozart. Aesthetics and Tradition in Helmut Lachenmann's Accanto" i twentieth-century music, vol. 8, no. 1, March 2011, pp. 71-97.