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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462872803321

Autore

Iddon Martin <1975->

Titolo

New music at Darmstadt : Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez / / Martin Iddon [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-88969-9

1-107-06560-7

1-107-05703-5

1-107-05488-5

1-107-05818-X

1-107-05952-6

1-107-05596-2

1-139-51957-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Music since 1900

Disciplina

780.943/41670904

Soggetti

Music - Germany - Darmstadt - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The accidental serialists. Arrivals -- Schools -- Excursus : October 1954, Donaueschingen and Cologne -- Chance encounters. Precursors -- The Cage shock -- In Cage's wake.

Sommario/riassunto

New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert and a range of journalistic commentators, created an image of a coherent entity, despite the very diverse range of compositional practices on display at the courses. The book also explores the collapse of the seeming collegiality of the Darmstadt composers, which crystallised around the arrival there in 1958 of the most famous, and notorious, of all post-war composers, John Cage, an event Carl Dahlhaus opined 'swept across the European avant-garde like a natural



disaster'.