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Contemporary music : theoretical and philosophical perspectives /
This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. The book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, phil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. 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. Varèse, serialism and the acoustic metaphor / Pascal Decroupet. "I open and close"? / Richard Toop. A period of confrontation : the post-Webern years / Célestin Deliège
- pt. 2. 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 modulation / Max Paddison
- pt. 3. 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 Halls. 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.