The Pleasure Of Modernist Music

Author : Arved Mark Ashby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580461436

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The Pleasure of Modernist Music by Arved Mark Ashby Pdf

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In addition to a previously untranslated article by Pierre Boulez, the volume contains articles (all but one previously unpublished) by twelve distinctive and prominent composers, music critics, and music theorists from America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa: Arved Ashby, Amy Bauer,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.

Author : Bj Heile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351542418

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The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music by Bj Heile Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226012662

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Modernism and Music by Daniel Albright Pdf

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.

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 1316465829

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Transformations of Musical Modernism by Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson Pdf

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.

Author : Björn Heile,Charles Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Daniel Albright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226012530

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Untwisting the Serpent by Daniel Albright Pdf

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.

Author : Aaron Copland
Publisher : Durham : University of New Hampshire
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007592911

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The Pleasures of Music by Aaron Copland Pdf

Author : Björn Heile
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754662608

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The Modernist Legacy by Björn Heile Pdf

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.

Author : Blake Howe,Stephanie Jensen-Moulton,Neil Lerner,Joseph Straus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190493738

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies by Blake Howe,Stephanie Jensen-Moulton,Neil Lerner,Joseph Straus Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, mobility impairment often coupled with bodily difference, and cognitive and intellectual impairments. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments. First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity.

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780262027274

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Music and the Making of Modern Science by Peter Pesic Pdf

A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line.

Author : W. J. Henderson
Publisher : anboco
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783736419520

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Modern Musical Drift by W. J. Henderson Pdf

PARSIFALIA, A Pure Fool in the New World, Ethics and Æsthetics, The National Religious Drama, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, A Futile God and a Potent Devil, The Woman and the Serpent, Back-worlds Gods and Over-Woman, ISOLDE'S SERVING-WOMAN, RICHARD STRAUSS, The Historical Survey, The Æsthetic View, What does It All Mean?, Strauss and the Song Writers, AUX ITALIENS, Italian Opera of To-day, The Classic of the Unprogressive, THE ORATORIO OF TO-DAY

Author : John Hullah
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385226036

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The History of Modern Music by John Hullah Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : William Henry Hadow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Musical form
ISBN : HARVARD:ML1DVD

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Studies in Modern Music by William Henry Hadow Pdf

Author : Edmund Joseph Goehring
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580469302

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Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past by Edmund Joseph Goehring Pdf

A bold, restorative vision of Mozart's works, and Western art music generally, as manifestations of an idealism rooted in the sociable nature of humans. For over a generation now, many leading performers, critics, and scholars of Mozart's music have taken a rejection of transcendence as axiomatic. This essentially modernist, antiromantic orientation attempts to neutralize the sorts of aesthetic experiences that presuppose an enchantment with Mozart's art, an engagement traditionally articulated by such terms as intention, mimesis, author, and genius. And what is true of much recent Mozart interpretation isoften manifest in the interpretation of Western art music more generally. Edmund Goehring's Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past explores what gets lost when the vocabulary of enchantment is abandoned. The bookthen proceeds to offer an alternative vision of Mozart's works and of the wider canon of Western art music. A modernized poetics, Goehring argues, reduces art to mechanism or process. It sees less because it excludes a necessaryand enlarging human presence: the generative, and receiving, "I." This fascinating new book-length essay is addressed to any reader interested in the performing arts, visual arts, and literature and their relationship to the broader culture. Goehring draws on seminal thinkers in art criticism and philosophy to propose that such works as Mozart's radiate an idealism that has human sociability both as its source and its object. Edmund J. Goehring is Professor of Music History at the University of Western Ontario.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009112346

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Modern Music by Anonim Pdf