176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since 1945 the emphasis in new music has lain in a desire for progress, a concept challenged by postmodernist aesthetics. In this study, Alastair Williams identifies and explores the recurring issues and problems presented by post-war music. Part one examines the German philosopher, Theodor Adorno's portrayal of modernity and his understanding of modernism in music. This is followed by a survey... Read more
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.
Biography
Alastair Williams
’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
