Contemporary music : theoretical and philosophical perspectives / edited by Max Paddison and Irène Deliège.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paddison, Max.

Deliège, Irène.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Music.

Music--20th century--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music--21st century--History and criticism.

Music--21st century--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-315-57388-1

1-317-16069-X

1-317-16068-1

1-282-74382-1

9786612743825

1-4094-0416-1

9781315573885

OCLC:

662258367