How to analyse 20th-century music? In this second volume, Anthony Girard studies musical language after Debussy and brings out diverse writing techniques, offering a concise analysis, always starting with an excerpt from a score. Moreover, he has paid particular attention to the quality of the graphic presentation in order to facilitate the reading of musical examples.

After a well-developed chapter on harmony (Ravel, Schönberg, Bartók, Stravinsky, Milhaud, Webern, Messiaen...), the author ex...