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Author Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.

Title Philosophy of modern music / Theodor W. Adorno ; translated by Anne G. Mitchell and Wesley V. Blomster.

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, 1984.
©1973

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  ML197 .A313 1973    Available  ---
 Talbott Annex  b13357840    Available  Ask Librarian for access
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML197 .A36 1984    Available  ---
Description xiv, 220 pages ; 22 cm
Note Translation of: Philosophie der neuen Musik.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Seabury Press, 1980, c1973.
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references.
Contents Choice of subject matter -- New conformism -- False musical consciousness -- "Intellectualism" -- Modern music unprotected -- The antinomy of modern music -- Growing indifferentism -- On method -- Schoenberg and progress: disturbance of the work -- Inherent tendency of musical material -- Schenberg's criticism of illusion and play -- Dialectics of loneliness -- Loneliness as style -- Expressionism as objectivity -- Total organization of the elements of music -- Total development -- The concept of twelve-tone technique -- Musical domination of nature -- Loss of freedom -- Twelve-tone melos and rhythm -- Differentiation and coarsening -- Harmony -- Instrumental timbre -- Twelve-tone counterpoint -- Function of counterpoint -- Form -- The composers -- Avan-tgarde and theory -- Renunciation of material -- Cognitive character -- Attitude towards society
Stravinsky and restoration: Authenticity -- Sacrifice and the absence of intention -- Hand organ as a primeval phenomenon -- Sacre and African sculpture -- Technical elements in Sacre -- "Rhythm," -- Identification with the collective -- Archaism, modernism, infantilism -- Permanent regression and musical form -- The psychotic aspect -- Ritual -- Alienation as objectivity -- Fetishism of the means -- Depersonalization -- Hebephrenia -- Catatonia -- Music about music -- Denaturation and simplification -- Dissociation of time -- Music-A pseudomorphism of painting -- Theory of ballet music -- Modes of listening -- The deception of objectivism -- The final trick -- Neo-classicism -- Experiments in expansion -- Schoenberg and Stravinsky.
Subject Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951.
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Added Title Philosophie der neuen Musik. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82217165
ISBN 0826401384