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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958363703321

Autore

Rochberg George

Titolo

The aesthetics of survival : a composer's view of twentieth-century music / / George Rochberg ; edited and with an introduction by William Bolcom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c1984

ISBN

9786612555879

9781282555877

1282555871

9780472025114

0472025112

Edizione

[Rev. and expanded ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

780/.904

Soggetti

Music - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Essays.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: pages 243-244.

Nota di contenuto

On the new image of music -- On Schoenberg and serialism -- On musical time and space -- On music, humanism, and culture -- On the fantastic and the logical -- On the renewal of music.

Sommario/riassunto

A revised paperback edition of composer George Rochberg's landmark essays Rochberg presents the rare spectacle of a composer who has made his peace with tradition while maintaining a strikingly individual profile. . . . H]e succeeds in transforming the sublime concepts of traditional music into contemporary language.-Washington Post An indispensable book for anyone who wishes to understand the sad and curious fate of music in the twentieth century.-Atlantic Monthly The writings of George Rochberg stand as a pinnacle from which our past and future can be viewed.-Kansas City Star