| Description |
1 online resource (407 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Music Examples; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Contemporary Music: Theory, Aesthetics, Critical Theory; PART I: Theoretical Perspectives and Retrospectives; 1 The Principles of Music and the Rationalization of Theory; 2 Atonal Harmony: From Set to Scale; 3 In Search of Lost Harmony; 4 Against a Theory of Musical (New) Complexity; 5 Heterogeneity: Or, On the Choice of Being Omnivorous; 6 Varse, Serialism and the Acoustic Metaphor; 7 'I Open and Close'?; 8 A Period of Confrontation: The Post-Webern Years |
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PART II: Philosophical Critiques and Speculations After Adorno9 A Philosophy of Totality; 10 Possibilities for a Work-Immanent Contemporary Musical Logic; 11 Postmodernism and the Survival of the Avant-garde; 12 Material Constraints: Adorno, Benjamin, Arendt; 13 Towards an Aesthetics of Risk; 14 Music and Social Relations: Towards a Theory of Mediation; PART III: Creative Orientations; 15 Music, Ambiguity, Buddhism: A Composer's Perspective; 16 Arti |
| Summary |
This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. The book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers and composers and includes new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm. Contributions with a theoretical emphasis consider the historical rationalization of music and technology, new approaches to the theorization of atonal harmony in the wake |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Music -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Music
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Deliège, Irène.
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| LC no. |
2009050043 |
| ISBN |
9781409404163 |
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1409404161 |
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9780754604976 |
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0754604977 |
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