| Description |
xx, 386 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Contemporary music : theory, aesthetics, critical theory / Max Paddison -- pt. I. 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 -- Varèses, serialism and the acoustic metaphor / Pascal Decroupet -- "I open and close"? / Richard Toop -- A period of confrontation : the post-Webern years / Célestin Deliège -- -- pt. II. 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 mediation / Max Paddison -- -- pt. III. 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 Hails -- 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. |
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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20th century |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Music -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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| Added Author |
Paddison, Max.
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Deliège, Irène.
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| ISBN |
9780754604976 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0754604977 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781409404163 ebook |
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1409404161 ebook |
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