| Description |
xxiii, 329 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Music since 1900
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Music since 1900.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-323) and index. |
| Summary |
New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert and a range of journalistic commentators, created an image of a coherent entity, despite the very diverse range of compositional practices on display at the courses. The book also explored the collapse of the seeming collegiality of the Darmstadt composers, which crystallised around the arrival there in 1958 of the most famous, and notorious, of all post-war composers, John Cage, an event that, Carl Dahlhaus opined, 'swept across European avant-garde like a natural disaster'. |
| Subject |
Music -- Germany -- Darmstadt -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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Germany -- Darmstadt. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Nono, Luigi -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Nono, Luigi. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007. |
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Cage, John -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cage, John. |
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Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016. |
| ISBN |
9781107033290 hardback |
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1107033292 hardback |
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