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The Pleasure of Modernist Music

Author : Arved Mark Ashby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580461433
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure of Modernist Music written by Arved Mark Ashby and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Berg's Wozzeck and Webern's Symphony Op.21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical control, the unusual musical practices of the Velvet Underground, and Stanley Kubrick's use of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna in the epic film 2001. The composers discussed in these pages -- including Bartók, Stockhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Steve Reich, and many others -- are modernists in that they are defined by their individualism, whether covert or overt, and share a basic urge toward redesigning musical discourse. The aim of this volume is to negotiate a varied and open middle ground between polemical extremes of reception. The contributors sketch out the possible significance of a repertory that in past discussions has been deemed either meaningless or beyond describable meaning. With an emphasis on recent aesthetics and contexts -- including film music, sexuality, metaphor, and ideas of a listening grammar -- they trace the meanings that such works and composers have held for listeners of different kinds. None of them takes up the usual mandate of "educated listening" to modernist works: the notion that a person can appreciate "difficult" music if given enough time and schooling. Instead the book defines novel but meaningful avenues of significance for modernist music, avenues beyond those deemed appropriate or acceptable by the academy. While some contributors offer new listening strategies, most interpret the listening premise more loosely: as a metaphor for any manner of personal and immediate connection with music. In addition to a previously untranslated article by Pierre Boulez, the volume contains articles (all but one previously unpublished) by twelve distinctive and prominent composers, music critics, and music theorists from America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa: Arved Ashby, Amy Bauer, William Bolcom, Jonathan Bernard, Judy Lochhead, Fred Maus, Andrew Mead, Greg Sandow, Martin Scherzinger, Jeremy Tambling, Richard Toop, and Lloyd Whitesell. Arved Ashby is Associate Professor of Music at the Ohio State University.

Untwisting the Serpent

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226012537
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Untwisting the Serpent written by Daniel Albright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.

The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268059
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays written by Richard Taruskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelim. p.

The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music

Author : Bj Heile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351542400
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music written by Bj Heile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways.

The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music

Author : Björn Heile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131704245X
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music written by Björn Heile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from prominent scholars associated with the ‘new musicology’. Yet these critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the ‘contemporary’, and the crucial distinction between modernism in popular culture and a ‘popular modernism’, a modernism of the people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed essence.

Modernism and Music

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226012667
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Music written by Daniel Albright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If in earlier eras music may have seemed slow to respond to advances in other artistic media, during the modernist age it asserted itself in the vanguard. Modernism and Music provides a rich selection of texts on this moment, some translated into English for the first time. It offers not only important statements by composers and critics, but also musical speculations by poets, novelists, philosophers, and others-all of which combine with Daniel Albright's extensive, interlinked commentary to place modernist music in the full context of intellectual and cultural history.

From 1989, Or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious

Author : Seth Brodsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520279360
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis From 1989, Or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious by : Seth Brodsky

Download or read book From 1989, Or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious written by Seth Brodsky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint."

Modern Music

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Modern Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pleasures of Music

Author : Aaron Copland
Publisher : Durham : University of New Hampshire
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Music written by Aaron Copland and published by Durham : University of New Hampshire. This book was released on 1959 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Music Sound

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6042 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Music Sound written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Nicolae Sfetcu. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 6042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music.

Transformations of Musical Modernism

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107127211
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Transformations of Musical Modernism written by Erling E. Guldbrandsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

Modernism and Popular Music

Author : Ronald Schleifer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497472
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Popular Music written by Ronald Schleifer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another. In Modernism and Popular Music, Ronald Schleifer instead shows how the music of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thomas 'Fats' Waller and Billie Holiday can be considered as artistic expressions equal to those of the traditional high art practices in music and literature. Combining detailed attention to the language and aesthetics of popular music with an examination of its early twentieth-century performance and dissemination through the new technologies of the radio and phonograph, Schleifer explores the 'popularity' of popular music in order to reconsider received and seeming self-evident truths about the differences between high art and popular art and, indeed, about twentieth-century modernism altogether.

Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music

Author : Nicole V. Gagné
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538122987
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music written by Nicole V. Gagné and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contemporary music scene thus embodies a uniquely broad spectrum of activity, which has grown and changed down to the present hour. With new talents emerging and different technologies developing as we move further into the 21st century, no one can predict what paths music will take next. All we can be certain of is that the inspiration and originality that make music live will continue to bring awe, delight, fascination, and beauty to the people who listen to it. This book cover modernist and postmodern concert music worldwide from the years 1888 to 2018. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on the most important composers, musicians, methods, styles, and media in modernist and postmodern classical music worldwide, from 1888 to 2018. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about modern and contemporary classical music.

Transformations of Musical Modernism

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316465820
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Transformations of Musical Modernism written by Erling E. Guldbrandsen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound transformations in the composition, performance and reception of modernist music have taken place in recent decades. This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the forms that musical modernism takes today, how modern music is performed and heard, and its relationship to earlier music. In sixteen chapters, leading figures in the field and emerging scholars examine modernist music from the inside, in terms of changing practices of composition, musical materials and overarching aesthetic principles, and from the outside, in terms of the changing contextual frameworks in which musical modernism has taken place and been understood. Shaped by a 'rehearing' of modernist music, the picture that emerges redraws the map of musical modernism as a whole and presents a full-scale re-evaluation of what the modernist movement has all been about.

Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction

Author : Arved Mark Ashby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520264797
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction written by Arved Mark Ashby and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arved Ashby writes with a keen sense of the historical processes, ironies, and reversals that seem to characterize the ways that musicologists think about, and contemporary listeners experience, works and performance. This book is a major contribution to the burgeoning body of critical musicological literature on recordings; anybody interested in that field, or in the question of the 'artwork' in the contemporary world, needs to read this book--which fortunately, is a great pleasure to do."--Adam Krims, author of Music and Urban Geography "The relationship between classical music and recording is strangely conflicted: on the one hand recorded music is the perfect realization of aesthetic autonomy, on the other hand it commodifies music and transforms its role within society. Ashby's book offers a penetrating analysis of these cultural conflicts, showing how technological developments from the phonogram to the mp3 have changed our basic sense of what music is as well as the ways in which we consume it. What emerges from this sustained study of the relationship between technology and values is a view of classical musical culture that is both richer and truer to life."--Nicholas Cook, author of A Guide to Musical Analysis "Lively and persuasive. Ashby has the enviable, rare ability to lead the reader comfortably through highly complex material without oversimplifying. This is a must-read for composers, music theorists, performers, musicologists, critics, and anyone with an interest in classical music beyond the elementary level."--Jonathan Dunsby, author of Performing Music

Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

Author : Eduardo de la Fuente
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136927433
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity written by Eduardo de la Fuente and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 what they tell us about the condition of modernity. Modernity is here treated as a complex social and cultural formation, in which mythology, narrative, and the desire for ‘re-enchantment’ have not completely disappeared. Through an analysis of Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Cage, 'the author shows that the twentieth century composer often adopted an artistic personality akin to Max Weber’s religious types of the prophet and priest, ascetic and mystic. Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity advances a cultural sociology of modernity and shows that twentieth century musical culture often involved the adoption of ‘apocalyptic’ temporal narratives, a commitment to ‘musical revolution’, a desire to explore the limits of noise and sound, and, finally, redemption through the rediscovery of tonality. This book is essential reading for those interested in cultural sociology, sociological theory, music history, and modernity/modernism studies.

Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021

Author : Ildar D. Khannanov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030740390
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 written by Ildar D. Khannanov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents sixteen chapters in Volume 1. This Volume I of the Proceedings of the Worldwide Music Conference 2021 offers a smorgasbord of scientific approaches to music. The congress is one of a kind; it is dedicated not to a specific field but to the interdisciplinary developments and the interaction with the representatives from actual scientific disciplines. The languages of mathematics, computer science, semiotics, palaeography, and medicine are in the mix; geography of the studies is also impressive—Greece, Mexico, China, Russia, India, Poland, and USA, to name just a few. The purpose of such juxtaposition is to see how the terminology, categorical apparatus, and interpretations of music vary from science to science and how this can enrich the terminology of music theory. They cover a wide range of topics that the editors divided into four subfields: music in interdisciplinary contexts, music and current technology, musical instruments and voice, and music pedagogy and medicine. The opening section of the Proceedings is thus dedicated to the idea of interdisciplinarity, relationship of creator of theory of harmony Rameau to sciences of his time, the idea of number in music, co-creation, and the category of musical network. Three more chapters here deal with Russian palaeography, Indian musical genre, and the idea of musical semiotics. It is a kind of opening statement from music theorists. Part two, music and current technology, united three chapters, on “zero gravity” concept in modern music, discussion of scales as mathematical networks, and the innovation in digital music making, transforming it from stationary to mobile applications. The third part, musical instruments and voice, is of special interest because it is in the study of the instruments, the design, acoustic characteristics, and tuning, and sciences have cooperated with music theory for centuries. In addition to instruments, one chapter here is dedicated to voice. The last part, musical pedagogy and medicine, takes the reader even further into the interdisciplinary domain. The Proceedings is written in standard English language, prepared for the pleasure of reading of wide circles of professionals in different fields. The purpose of the editors is to bring this rather diverse set of texts into the context of a fruitful dialogue.