Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory In Post-war Europe (Music In The Twentieth Century Ser. (PDF) #16)

Synopsis

Serial music was one of the most important aesthetic movements to emerge in post-war Europe, but its uncompromising music and modernist aesthetic has often been misunderstood. This book focuses on the controversial journal die Reihe, whose major contributors included Stockhausen, Eimert, Pousseur, Dieter Schnebel and G. M. Koenig, and discusses it in connection with many lesser-known sources in German musicology. It traces serialism's debt to the theories of Klee and Mondrian, and its relationship to developments in concrete art, modern poetry and the information aesthetics and semiotics of Max Bense and Umberto Eco. M. J. Grant sketches an aesthetic theory of serialism as experimental music, arguing that serial theory's embrace of both rigorous intellectualism and aleatoric processes is not, as many have suggested, a paradox, but the key to serial thought and to its relevance for contemporary theory.

Copyright:

2001

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

ISBN-13:

9780521804585

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Date of Addition:

10/11/18

Copyrighted By:

M J Grant

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Music, Philosophy

Submitted By:

Teresa Battey

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N/A

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This is a copyrighted book.