Contemporary music [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical and philosophical perspectives / / edited by Max Paddison and Irène Deliège

• Pubblicazione: Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (407 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.9/04
• Soggetto topico: Music - 20th century - History and criticism; Music - 20th century - Philosophy and aesthetics; Music - 21st century - History and criticism; Music - 21st century - Philosophy and aesthetics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PaddisonMax DeliègeIrène
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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 Artistic Orientations and the Limits of Explanation: An Interview with Pierre Boulez ; 17 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 Subjects
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary music
• ISBN: 1-317-16069-X; 1-317-16068-1; 1-282-74382-1; 9786612743825; 1-4094-0416-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459277803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II