| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 386 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives and retrospectives. The principles of music and the rationalization of theory / Hugues Dufourt. Atonal harmony : from set to scale / Célestin Deliège. In search of lost harmony / Rudolf Frisius. Against a theory of musical (new) complexity / Richard Toop. Heterogeneity, or, On the choice of being omnivorous / Pascal Decroupet. Varèse, serialism and the acoustic metaphor / Pascal Decroupet. "I open and close"? / Richard Toop. A period of confrontation : the post-Webern years / Célestin Deliège -- pt. 2. Philosophical critiques and speculations after Adorno. A philosophy of totality / Herman Sabbe. Possibilities for a work-immanent contemporary musical logic / François Nicolas. Postmodernism and the survival of the avant-garde / Max Paddison. Material constraints : Adorno, Benjamin, Arendt / Anne Boissière. Towards an aesthetics of risk / Marc Jimenez. Music and social relations : towards a theory of modulation / Max Paddison -- pt. 3. Creative orientations. Music, ambiguity, Buddhism : a composer's perspective / Jonathan Harvey. Artistic orientations, aesthetic concepts, and the limits of explanation : an interview with Pierre Boulez / David Walters. Failed time, successful time, shadowtime : an interview with Brian Ferneyhough / Lois Fitch and John Halls. Sound structures, transformations, and broken magic : an interview with Helmut Lachenmann / Abigail Heathcote. Hunting and forms : an interview with Wolfgang Rihm / Richard McGregor. Postlude : Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm and the Austro-German tradition / Alastair Williams |
| 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 |
| Notes |
English |
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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 -- History & Criticism.
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Music
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Paddison, Max.
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Deliège, Irène.
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| LC no. |
2009050043 |
| ISBN |
9781409404163 |
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1409404161 |
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0754604977 |
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9780754604976 |
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1317160681 |
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9781317160687 |
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1282743821 |
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9781282743823 |
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9786612743825 |
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6612743824 |
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