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

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addition to a previously untranslated article by Pierre Boulez, the volume contains articles (all but one previously unpublished) by twelve distinctive and prominent composers, music critics, and music theorists from America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa: Arved Ashby, Amy Bauer,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

Product details

• Assisted by: Arved Ashby (Editor), Arved M. Ashby (Editor)
• Publisher: B&T
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9781580461436
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-143-6
• No. of pages: 404
• Weight: 816 g
• Series: Eastman Studies in Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory