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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rochberg, George.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Essays.

Bibliography: pages 243-244.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612555879

9781282555877

1282555871

9780472025114

0472025112

OCLC:

824100576