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1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 412 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Isham Library papers ; 6
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Harvard publications in music ; 21
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Isham Library papers ; 6.
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Harvard publications in music ; 21.
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| Note |
In part papers presented at a conference held at the Harvard University Music Department on 9-11 November 2001. |
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"For Reinhold Brinkmann"--Page v. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
part 1. The eighteenth-century origins of modernity. Time's arrow and the advent of musical modernity / Karol Berger -- Spatial graphics / Martin Warnke -- On the beautiful in Mozart / Scott Burnham -- A propos of Buffon's Discours du style / Henri Zerner. |
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part 2. The pre-modernist roots of modernism. The textualization of the context : comic strategies in meta-operas of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries / Hermann Danuser -- John Cage and the principle of chance / Horst Bredekamp. |
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part 3. Aspects of modernism. The hunt for reminiscences in nineteenth-century Germany / Anthony Newcomb -- Some theoretical thoughts about aspects of harmony in Mahler's symphonies / David Lewin -- Beyond the bourgeoisie : social democracy and musical modernism in interwar Austria and Germany / Karen Painter -- Schoenberg's Byron : the "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte," the antinomies of modernism, and the problem of German imperialism / Judith L. Ryan -- Ideologies of serialism : Stravinsky's Threni and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Anne C. Shreffler -- The essence and persistence of modernity / Klaus Kropfinger -- "Vom Pfeiffen und von alten Dampfmaschinen," Virgil Thomson, a reply to Milan Kundera, Kurt Schwitters, and my galoshes : perspectives on "modern" and "modernism" / Leo Treitler -- Of aprons, buses, and bridges : Kafka's judgment / Peter J. Burgard -- Philosophical exercises in repetition : on music, humor, and exile in Wittgenstein and Adorno / Lydia Goehr. |
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part 4. The anti-hermeneutic impulse : beyond modernity or beyond modernism? Production of presence, interspersed with absence : a modernist view on music, libretti, and staging / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Cipher and performance in Sternberg's Dishonored / Carolyn Abbate. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics -- Congresses.
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Modernism (Music) -- Congresses.
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Brinkmann, Reinhold, 1934-2010.
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| Added Author |
Berger, Karol, 1947-
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Newcomb, Anthony, 1943-
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Harvard University. Department of Music.
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Brinkmann, Reinhold, 1934-2010. Dedicatee.
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| ISBN |
0964031728 (alk. paper) |
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