1st Edition
Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity
By Eduardo de la Fuente
Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance. The ‘break with tonality’, Neo-Classicism, serialism, chance, minimalism and the return of the ‘sacred’ in music, are explored in this book for... Read more
Introduction 1. Modernity, Modernism and Music 2. Myth and Narrative in Twentieth Century Musical Culture 3. The Structure of Musical Revolutions 4. Music in Max Weber’s Sociology of Modernity 5. Modernity in Theodor Adorno’s Philosophy of Modern Music 6. Music in Modern Theories of Communication 7. Arnold Schoenberg: The Composer as Prophet 8. Igor Stravinsky: The Composer as Priest 9. Pierre Boulez: The Composer as Ascetic 10. John Cage: The Composer as Mystic 11. From Avant-Gardism to Post-Modernism 12. Musical Re-Enchantment?
Biography
Eduardo De La Fuente is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University in Australia.
