1st Edition
Music Inside Out Going Too Far in Musical Essays
200 Pages
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Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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John Rahn's prolific activities as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software, editor of Perspectives of New Music during the 1980s and 90s, and author of an exemplary text on atonal theory are conspicuously in the foreground of the academic music-intellectual world. This collection of essays charts Rahn's progression from the construal of music's data structures to... Read more
Intro1 Introduction, Benjamin Boretz; Chapter 1 Repetition, John Rahn; Chapter 2 Differences, John Rahn; Chapter 3 Centers; dissenters (music, religion, and politics), John Rahn; Chapter 4 Aspects of musical explanation, John Rahn; Chapter 5 Notes on methodology in music theory, John Rahn; Chapter 6 New research paradigms, John Rahn; Chapter 7 D-light reflecting: the nature of comparison, John Rahn; Chapter 8 Logic, set theory, music theory, John Rahn; Chapter 9 How do you du (by milton babbitt)?, John Rahn; Chapter 10 What is valuable in art, and can music still achieve it?, John Rahn; Chapter 11 Music as anti-theater, Benjamin Boretz;
Biography
John Rahn is professor of music composition and theory and associate director of the school of music at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Benjamin Boretz is a composer and an influential music the
