| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 386 pages) : illustrations, music |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
part 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 -- part 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 -- part 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 20th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 21st century -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
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Music. (OCoLC)fst01030269
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
(OCoLC)fst01030408
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Paddison, Max.
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Deliège, Irène.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Contemporary music. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010 9780754604976 (DLC) 2009050043 (OCoLC)144529708 |
| Standard No. |
9786612743825 |
| ISBN |
9781409404163 (electronic bk.) |
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1409404161 (electronic bk.) |
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