Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives

摘要: This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical creative issues in Western art music at the end twentieth- beginning twenty-first centuries. Edited by Max Paddison Irene Deliege, book offers a wide range international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers composers, including Celestin Pascal Decroupet, Richard Toop, Rudolf Frisius, Alastair Williams, Herman Sabbe, FranAois Nicolas, Marc Jimenez, Anne Boissiere, Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Jonathan Harvey, new with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm. Part I is mainly theoretical emphasis. Issues addressed include historical rationalization technology, approaches to theorization atonal harmony wake Spectralism, debates on 'new complexity', heterogeneity, pluralism stylistic omnivorousness that characterizes our time, characterization twentieth-century contemporary as 'search for lost harmony'. The orientation II philosophical, examining concepts totality inclusivity music, raising questions what might be expected an autonomous musical logic, considering problem survival avant-garde context postmodernist relativism. As well analytic philosophy cognitive psychology, critical theory features prominently, theories social mediation concept material Adorno's late aesthetic theory, call 'an aesthetics risk' means 'to reassert essential role criticism, judgment, evaluation necessary conditions bring about real public debate today'. III perspectives, composers who have mad