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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Pub.,
2010.
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Table des matières:
- Cover; Contents; List of Music Examples; List of Figures and Tables; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Contemporary Music: Theory, Aesthetics, Critical Theory; PART I: Theoretical Perspectives and Retrospectives; 1 The Principles of Music and the Rationalization of Theory; 2 Atonal Harmony: From Set to Scale; 3 In Search of Lost Harmony; 4 Against a Theory of Musical (New) Complexity; 5 Heterogeneity: Or, On the Choice of Being Omnivorous; 6 Varse, Serialism and the Acoustic Metaphor; 7 'I Open and Close'?; 8 A Period of Confrontation: The Post-Webern Years.
- PART II: Philosophical Critiques and Speculations After Adorno9 A Philosophy of Totality; 10 Possibilities for a Work-Immanent Contemporary Musical Logic; 11 Postmodernism and the Survival of the Avant-garde; 12 Material Constraints: Adorno, Benjamin, Arendt; 13 Towards an Aesthetics of Risk; 14 Music and Social Relations: Towards a Theory of Mediation; PART III: Creative Orientations; 15 Music, Ambiguity, Buddhism: A Composer's Perspective; 16 Arti.


