Alastair Williams

New Music and the Claims of Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since 1945 the emphasis in new music has lain in a desire for progress, a concept challenged by postmodernist aesthetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781138269071
• ISBN-10: 1138269077
• Artikelnr.: 47858090

Autorenporträt

Alastair Williams

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introductions
Part One Modernity: Critical Theory and Aesthetic Modernity: Modernity
Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Culture Industry
Truth as Negation: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory
Second Generation Critical Theory
Alienated Music: Beethoven to Schoenberg: The Beethoven Critique and Nineteenth-Century Music
Dialectic of Modernity: Schoenberg and Stravinsky
Part Two High Modernism and After: Construction and Indeterminacy: Boulez and Cage
High Modernism
Boulez's Third Piano Sonata
Cage
Modernism Inside Out
Music and Deconstruction
Illusion and Space: Ligeti
Part III Consequences of Modernism: Separate Ways
A Dialectical Circus on Roaratorio
The Persistence of Modernism: Rèpons
Discourses of Modernity
Aesthetics Reclaimed
Postmodernism
Engaging Tradition
Wolfgang Rihm
In Search of Subjectivity
Bibliography
Name and title Index
Subject Index.