New Music and the Claims of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781859283684 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 176 str.

Alastair Williams

Opis

Williams (music, Keele U.) uses the aesthetics of Theodore Adorno and later critical theory to explore the strategies employed by post-1945 new music in the West. Rather than offer comprehensive coverage, he chooses a repertoire that confronts key issues, gravitating towards the work of Pierre Boule

Recenzje

’Alastair Williams' book is a thoroughly researched and intelligent attempt to analyze the philiosophical backgrounds or implications of modernism and postmodernism in music.' Musicae Scientiae, vol 4, no 2

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Alastair Williams