Serial music, serial aesthetics : compositional theory in post-war Europe

Auteur(s) :

Grant, Morag Josephine (1972-....) Découvrir l'auteur

Résumé

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.

Éditeur(s)
- Cambridge University Press
Date
- 2001
Contenu
- Introduction; 1. European culture in the post-war years; 2. The isolated tone: electronic and serial music, 1945-1954; 3. Electronic music - 'chaos or order'?; 4. Webern and Debussy; 5. Serial music as an aleatoric process; 6. 'Das Serielle'; 7. Music and language; 8. Serial theory, serial practice - wherefore, and why? Conclusion: Dorthin?
Langues
- Anglais
Description matérielle
- VIII, 272 p. : ill ; 26 cm
Collections
- Music in the twentieth century
Sujet(s)
- Musique sérielle
ISBN
- 0521804582
Indice
- 78(091)"19" Musique. Histoire. 20e siècle
Origine de la notice:
- BPI