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Author Kelvin, Baron William Thomson.

Title MetaMusic versus the Sound of Music : a Critique of Serialism.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (250 pages)
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Contents METAMUSIC VERSUS THE SOUND OF MUSIC: A Critique of Serialism; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Permissions Granted; Prologue; Chapter 1 -- Setting the Scene; Chapter 2 -- Music's Epiphany: ""The Most Abstract of the Arts""; Chapter 3 -- Those Kindred Fruits of 'Revolution'; Chapter 4 -- Dashes of Sonic Reality -- Midst Heavy Theory-Spinning; Chapter 5 -- Meanwhile: Beyond our West-European Orbit; Chapter 6 -- Empirical Psychology's Verdict; Entr'acte: Serialist Seeds in Bountiful Bloom; Chapter 7 -- Masters of Metamusic; Chapter 8 -- ... and the Beat Goes On; Bibliography.
Note Includes index.
Summary This study utilizes knowledge banks: acoustics, cognition/perception, ethnomusicology and cultural records in probing Serialism?s basic assumptions. It examines analyses by such leaders in the serialist world as Milton Babbitt, David Lewin and Allen Forte.
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Subject Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Twelve-tone system.
Twelve-tone system.
Music theory -- History.
Music theory.
History.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kelvin, Baron William Thomson. MetaMusic versus the Sound of Music : A Critique of Serialism. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010 9780773438071
ISBN 9780773430259 (electronic book)
0773430253 (electronic book)