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Contemporary Music - Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,610
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Contemporary Music - Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback): Max Paddison

Contemporary Music - Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback)

Max Paddison; Irene Deliege

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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. Edited by Max Paddison and Irene Deliege, the book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers and composers, including Celestin Deliege, Pascal Decroupet, Richard Toop, Rudolf Frisius, Alastair Williams, Herman Sabbe, FranAois Nicolas, Marc Jimenez, Anne Boissiere, Max Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Jonathan Harvey, and new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm. Part I is mainly theoretical in emphasis. Issues addressed include the historical rationalization of music and technology, new approaches to the theorization of atonal harmony in the wake of Spectralism, debates on the 'new complexity', the heterogeneity, pluralism and stylistic omnivorousness that characterizes music in our time, and the characterization of twentieth-century and contemporary music as a 'search for lost harmony'. The orientation of Part II is mainly philosophical, examining concepts of totality and inclusivity in new music, raising questions as to what might be expected from an autonomous contemporary musical logic, and considering the problem of the survival of the avant-garde in the context of postmodernist relativism. As well as analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology, critical theory features prominently, with theories of social mediation in music, new perspectives on the concept of musical material in Adorno's late aesthetic theory, and a call for 'an aesthetics of risk' in contemporary art as a means 'to reassert the essential role of criticism, of judgment, and of evaluation as necessary conditions to bring about a real public debate on the art of today'. Part III offers creative perspectives, with new essays and interviews from important contemporary composers who have mad

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2016
First published: 2010
Editors: Max Paddison
Authors: Irene Deliege
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-25131-1
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > 20th century music
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LSN: 1-138-25131-3
Barcode: 9781138251311

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