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Dead Composers, Living Audiences - The Situation of Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New)
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Dead Composers, Living Audiences - The Situation of Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New)
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In this well-written work, the author argues that the present
situation regarding the music of the classical tradition is
fundamentally untenable. While change is, of course, inevitable,
the author posits that teachers of the classical music tradition,
nonetheless, have a moral responsibility to do as much as possible
to advocate and work toward goals that will hasten and most
positively influence the direction of change. The author believes
that the present relationship between the music of the Western
classical tradition and the culture of the present is an unhealthy
one. The music of dead composers comprises the overwhelming
preponderance of music heard today, especially in the larger venues
such as symphony halls and opera houses. Specifically, the author
argues that we must promote and provide for (at least) an equal
place in our teaching, recordings, and performances for the music
of composers who are living at the time we undertake these
activities. He further advocates that this is not simply a matter
of currency, it is a matter of cultural vibrancyeven survivaland it
is an ethical and aesthetic concern toward which we must direct our
most serious attention and effort. As both a singer and a teacher,
the author delivers a resounding perspective in this book. He also
brings the important insights of others from other fields such as
literature, philosophy, and theater. The authors discussions
revolve around the situation of classical music, a situation that
in many ways exemplifies the gradual transformation of the
rationalization of the world, into the radical commodification of
the world. This outcome will be shown to be intimately linked to
ethical and aesthetic issues, whichwill be developed by means of an
extended consideration of the conflict between the rational and the
a-rational as it plays itself out in contrasts between music, art,
and literature, and science and philosophy. The book delves into
the problem of teaching music, particularly the problems commonly
dealt with in the teaching studio. Teachers of the Western music
tradition have developed tried and true techniques for dealing with
these problems as they occur in teaching, generally by helping
students toward an understanding of historical, musical, technical
and stylistic problems, among a host of others. These common
problems of teaching are, however, symptomatic of very deep,
complicated, and endemic philosophical issues that have, so far,
been insufficiently discussed in a form that might be useful to
teachers, performers, and lovers of the music of the Western
classical music tradition. The most unique contribution of these
discussions is the investigation into what is not discussed to any
depth in pedagogy bookswhat lies behind or beneath these commonly
experienced problems. This is a critical book for collections in
music.
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