Modernism and music : an anthology of sources / edited and with commentary by Daniel Albright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albright, Daniel, 1945-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

viii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2004]

Summary:

If in earlier eras music may have seemed slow to respond to advances in other artistic media, during the modernist age it asserted itself in the vanguard. Modernism and Music provides a rich selection of texts on this moment, some translated into English for the first time. It offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others -- all of which combine with Daniel Albright's extensive, interlinked commentary to place modernist music in the full context of intellectual and cultural history.

Contents:

Testing the boundaries between speech and music

Testing the boundaries between the visual arts and music

The new music theater

Fuller universes of music

New discipline: the twelve-tone method

Isms

Music, social responsibility, and politics

Testing the boundaries between popular and high art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [409]) and index.

ISBN:

0226012662

0226012670

OCLC:

52845745