04048nam 2200673Ia 450 991045927780332120200520144314.01-317-16069-X1-317-16068-11-282-74382-197866127438251-4094-0416-1(CKB)2670000000036002(EBL)564088(OCoLC)662258367(SSID)ssj0000434884(PQKBManifestationID)12165692(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434884(PQKBWorkID)10403401(PQKB)11203917(MiAaPQ)EBC564088(Au-PeEL)EBL564088(CaPaEBR)ebr10406806(CaONFJC)MIL922654(EXLCZ)99267000000003600220091125d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary music[electronic resource] theoretical and philosophical perspectives /edited by Max Paddison and Irène DeliègeBurlington, VT Ashgatec20091 online resource (407 p.)Includes index.0-7546-0497-7 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 Varèse, Serialism and the Acoustic Metaphor; 7 'I Open and Close'?; 8 A Period of Confrontation: The Post-Webern YearsPART 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 Artistic Orientations and the Limits of Explanation: An Interview with Pierre Boulez17 Failed Time, Successful Time, Shadowtime: An Interview with Brian Ferneyhough18 Sound Structures, Transformations, and Broken Magic: An Interview with Helmut Lachenmann; 19 Hunting and Forms: An Interview with Wolfgang Rihm; Postlude: Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm and the Austro-German Tradition; Index of Names; Index of SubjectsThis 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, philosophers and composers and includes new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm. Contributions with a theoretical emphasis consider the historical rationalization of music and technology, new approaches to the theorization of atonal harmony in the wake Music20th centuryHistory and criticismMusic20th centuryPhilosophy and aestheticsMusic21st centuryHistory and criticismMusic21st centuryPhilosophy and aestheticsElectronic books.MusicHistory and criticism.MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics.MusicHistory and criticism.MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics.780.9/04Paddison Max919816Deliège Irène919817MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459277803321Contemporary music2063158UNINA