Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Paddison, Max.
• Deliège, Irène.

Description

xx, 386 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Music > 20th century > History and criticism
• Music > 21st century > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Music > 20th century > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Music > 21st century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

pt. 1. Theoretical perspectives and retrospectives. The principles of music and the rationalization of theory / Hugues Dufourt. Atonal harmony : from set to scale / Célestin Deliège. In search of lost harmony / Rudolf Frisius. Against a theory of musical (new) complexity / Richard Toop. Heterogeneity, or, On the choice of being omnivorous / Pascal Decroupet. Varèse, serialism and the acoustic metaphor / Pascal Decroupet. "I open and close"? / Richard Toop. A period of confrontation : the post-Webern years / Célestin Deliège -- pt. 2. Philosophical critiques and speculations after Adorno. A philosophy of totality / Herman Sabbe. Possibilities for a work-immanent contemporary musical logic / François Nicolas. Postmodernism and the survival of the avant-garde / Max Paddison. Material constraints : Adorno, Benjamin, Arendt / Anne Boissière. Towards an aesthetics of risk / Marc Jimenez. Music and social relations : towards a theory of modulation / Max Paddison -- pt. 3. Creative orientations. Music, ambiguity, Buddhism : a composer's perspective / Jonathan Harvey. Artistic orientations, aesthetic concepts, and the limits of explanation : an interview with Pierre Boulez / David Walters. Failed time, successful time, shadowtime : an interview with Brian Ferneyhough / Lois Fitch and John Halls. Sound structures, transformations, and broken magic : an interview with Helmut Lachenmann / Abigail Heathcote. Hunting and forms : an interview with Wolfgang Rihm / Richard McGregor. Postlude : Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm and the Austro-German tradition / Alastair Williams.

Call Number

JME 11-196

ISBN

• 9780754604976 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0754604977 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009050043

OCLC

144529708

Title

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

Imprint

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Paddison, Max.

Deliège, Irène.

Research Call Number

JME 11-196