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New music and the claims of modernity / Alastair Williams.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3845 .W59 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Alastair.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969--Criticism and interpretation.
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
- Music--20th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Music--20th century--History and criticism.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 163 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, [1997]
- Contents:
- Part I Modernity
- 1 Critical Theory and Aesthetic Modernity 3
- Modernity 3
- Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Culture Industry 4
- Truth as Negation: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory 8
- Second-Generation Critical Theory 17
- 2 Alienated Music: Beethoven to Schoenberg 22
- The Beethoven Critique and Nineteenth-Century Music 22
- Dialectic of Modernity: Schoenberg and Stravinsky 31
- Part II High Modernism and After
- 3 Construction and Indeterminacy: Boulez and Cage 45
- High Modernism 45
- Boulez's Third Piano Sonata 51
- Cage 64
- 4 Modernism Inside Out 73
- Music and Deconstruction 73
- Illusion and Space: Ligeti 81
- Part III Consequences of Modernism
- 5 Separate Ways 95
- A Dialectical Circus on Roaratorio 95
- The Persistence of Modernism: Repons 104
- 6 Discourses of Modernity 119
- Aesthetics Reclaimed 119
- Postmodernism 123
- 7 Engaging Tradition 136
- Wolfgang Rihm 136
- In Search of Subjectivity 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-158) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1859283683
- OCLC:
- 35835737
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