Serial Music Serial Aesthetics

Author : M. J. Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521619920

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Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics by M. J. Grant Pdf

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.

Author : Markus Bandur
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764364491

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Aesthetics of Total Serialism by Markus Bandur Pdf

Total serialism as a concept, has progressed beyond the twelve-tone technique of composers Schoenberg and Webern, and since the 1950s it has been constantly developed. Today, it refers to far more than just a technical process for composing, rather it offers one possibility of creatively integrating knowledge on man and nature into works of art. On all levels of artificial, man-made creations - from musical compositions to architectonic designs - it allows properties and dimensions to be systematically organised, with criteria such as mass and proportions playing decisive roles. Markus Bandur (born in 1960) studied science of music, philosophy and history and now teaches at the universities of Freiburg i.Br, Berne and Kassel

Author : Marcus Zagorski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3955931242

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Adorno and the Aesthetics of Postwar Serial Music by Marcus Zagorski Pdf

Author : Ted Nannicelli,Héctor J. Pérez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000478815

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Cognition, Emotion, and Aesthetics in Contemporary Serial Television by Ted Nannicelli,Héctor J. Pérez Pdf

This book posits an interconnection between the ways in which contemporary television serials cue cognitive operations, solicit emotional responses, and elicit aesthetic appreciation. The chapters explore a number of questions including: How do the particularities of form and style in contemporary serial television engage us cognitively, emotionally, and aesthetically? How do they foster cognitive and emotional effects such as feeling suspense, anticipation, surprise, satisfaction, and disappointment? Why and how do we value some serials while disliking others? What is it about the particularities of serial television form and style, in conjunction with our common cognitive, emotional, and aesthetic capacities, that accounts for serial television’s cognitive, socio-political, and aesthetic value and its current ubiquity in popular culture? This book will appeal to postgraduates and scholars working in television studies as well as film studies, cognitive media theory, media psychology, and the philosophy of art.

Author : Carlo Caballero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521543983

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Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics by Carlo Caballero Pdf

A wide-ranging study of Fauré and his contemporaries.

Author : Ian Rae
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773574922

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From Cohen to Carson by Ian Rae Pdf

"From Cohen to Carson provides the first book-length analysis of one of Canada's most distinctive fields of literary production. Ian Rogers argues that Canadian poets have turned to the novel because of the limitations of the lyric, but have used lyric methods - puns, symbolism, repetition, juxtaposition - to create a mode of narrative that contrasts sharply with the descriptive conventions of realist and plot-driven novels." "Detailed case studies of novels by Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Anne Carson, as well as sections on A. M. Klein and Anne Michaels, reveal how these authors framed their early novels according to formal precedents established in their poetry. In tracking the authors' shift from lyric to long poem to novel, Rae also investigates their experiments with non-literary art forms - photography, painting, and film. He argues convincingly that the authors discussed have combined disparate genres and media to alter notions of narrative coherence in the novel and engage the diverse but fragmented cultural histories of Canadian society." --Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Martin Iddon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108492522

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The Cambridge Companion to Serialism by Martin Iddon Pdf

An authoritative guide to the multi-faceted compositional approach that underpinned twentieth-century art music from Schoenberg to Babbitt and beyond.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527514904

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Musical Aesthetics by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

This book contains six chapters covering key areas of musical aesthetics, including aesthetics of emotions; aesthetics of listening; aesthetics of performance; aesthetics of composition; aesthetics of nature; and aesthetics of commerce. Each chapter adopts an experiential approach to aesthetics, in which perceptual and intuitive musical responses – real-time experiences – are valued as a source of truth. Unlike intellectual aesthetics, which values conscious associations and meticulous artistic appraisals, experiential aesthetics looks primarily at everyday subconscious appreciations. The explorations here draw from the social sciences, hard sciences, philosophy, literature, theology, musicology, humanities, and other fields that directly or indirectly contribute to an understanding of our attraction to music. Presenting user-friendly distillations of numerous theories, concepts, and functions, this book will be of interest to both lay readers and expert practitioners.

Author : Arnold Whittall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521863414

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Serialism by Arnold Whittall Pdf

A clear, non-technical introduction to serialism - a key topic in music studies for both undergraduate and graduate students.

Author : Aaron Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429575167

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Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music by Aaron Hayes Pdf

Concepts of Time in Post-War European Music gives a historical and philosophical account of the discussions of the nature of time and music during the mid-twentieth century. The nature of time was a persistent topic among composers in Paris and Darmstadt in the decades after World War II, one which influenced their musical practice and historical relevance. Based on the author’s specialized knowledge of the relevant philosophical discourses, this volume offers a balanced critique of these composers' attempts at philosophizing about time. Touching on familiar topics such as Adorno’s philosophy of music, the writings of Boulez and Stockhausen, and Messiaen’s theology, this volume uncovers specific relationships among varied intellectual traditions that have not previously been described. Each chapter provides a philosophical explanation of specific problems that are relevant for interpreting the composer’s own essays or lectures, followed by a musical analysis of a piece of music which illustrates central theoretical concepts. This is a valuable study for scholars and researchers of music theory, music history, and the philosophy of music.

Author : George Rochberg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0472030264

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The Aesthetics of Survival by George Rochberg Pdf

A revised paperback edition of composer George Rochberg's landmark essays "Rochberg presents the rare spectacle of a composer who has made his peace with tradition while maintaining a strikingly individual profile. . . . [H]e succeeds in transforming the sublime concepts of traditional music into contemporary language." ---Washington Post "An indispensable book for anyone who wishes to understand the sad and curious fate of music in the twentieth century." ---Atlantic Monthly "The writings of George Rochberg stand as a pinnacle from which our past and future can be viewed." ---Kansas City Star As a composer, George Rochberg has played a leading role in bringing about a transformation of contemporary music through a reassessment of its relation to tonality, melody, and harmony. In The Aesthetics of Survival, the author addresses the legacy of modernism in music and its related effect on the cultural milieu, particularly its overemphasis on the abstract, rationalist thinking embraced by contemporary science, technology, and philosophy. Rochberg argues for the renewal of holistic values in order to ensure the survival of music as a humanly expressive art. A renowned composer, thinker, and teacher, George Rochberg has been honored with innumerable awards, including, most recently, an Alfred I. du Pont Award for Outstanding Conductors and Composers, and an André and Clara Mertens Contemporary Composer Award. He lives in Pennsylvania.

Author : Björn Heile,Charles Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317042457

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The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music by Björn Heile,Charles Wilson Pdf

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.

Author : Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804735581

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Sound Figures by Theodor W. Adorno Pdf

Theodor Adorno is one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics and music. This volume of essays contains Adorno's thoughts on music and its wider social implications.

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
Page : 6042 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Music Sound by Nicolae Sfetcu Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317297970

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Reification and the Aesthetics of Music by Jonathan Lewis Pdf

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy. Lewis's main argument is that contemporary conceptions of meaning and truth have been reified, and that aesthetics is able to articulate why this is the case, with important consequences for understanding the horizons and nature of philosophical inquiry. Reification and the Aesthetics of Music challenges the most emphatic and problematic conceptions of meaning and truth in both analytic philosophy and postmodern thought by acknowledging the ontological and logical primacy of our concrete, practice-based experiences with aesthetic phenomena. By engaging with a variety of aesthetic practices, including Beethoven's symphonies and string quartets, Wagner's music dramas, Richard Strauss's Elektra, the twentieth-century avant-garde, Jamaican soundsystem culture, and punk and contemporary noise, this book demonstrates the aesthetic relevance of reification as well as the concept's applicability to contemporary debates within philosophy.