The Pleasure of Modernist Music - Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology

An exploration of the meaning and reception of "modernist" music.

List of contents

Intention and Meaning in Modernist Music
The End of the Mannerist Century
A Fine Analysis
In Memory of a Receding Dialectic: The Political Relevance of Autonomy and Formalism in Modernist Musical Aesthetics
Twentieth-Century Tonality, or, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
"Tone-Color, Movement, Changing Harmonic Planes": Cognition, Constraints and Conceptual Blends in Modernist Music
Sexual and Musical Categories
Listening to Schizophrenia: The Wozzeck Case
The Musician Writes: The Deaf Man Looks On?
"Are You Sure You Can't Hear It?": Some Informal Reflections on Simple Information and Listening
A Fine Madness
"One Man's Signal is Another Man's Noise": Personal Encounters with Post-Tonal Music
The "Modernization" of Rock & Roll, 1965-75
Refiguring the Modernist Program for Hearing: Steve Reich and George Rochberg
Modernism Goes to the Movies

About the author

Arved Ashby

Summary

An exploration of the meaning and reception of "modernist" music.

Product details

• Authors: Arved Ashby, Amy Bauer, Fred Maus, Andrew Mead, Greg Sandow
• Assisted by: Arved Ashby (Editor), Arved (Royalty Account) Ashby (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9781580463751
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-375-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 228 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 614 g
• Illustrations: 4 b/w, 48 line illus.
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music; Eastman Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)