Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe - Rilegato

Grant, M. J.

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ISBN 10: 0521804582 ISBN 13: 9780521804585

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Riassunto

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.

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'A welcome and important publication.' Musical Times

'A rich and fascinating book.' Music Teacher

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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 analyses the writings of important serialists like Stockhausen, Pousseur and Eimert and places them in a wider cultural, musicological and aesthetic context.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521804582
• ISBN 13: 9780521804585
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280