Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe

Voorkant
Cambridge University Press, 8 jun 2005 - 284 pagina's
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.
 

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European culture in the postwar years
11
electronic and serial music 19451954
39
chaos or order?
75
Webern and Debussy
103
Serial music as an aleatoric process
143
Das Serielle
165
Music and language
193
wherefore and why?
222
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M. J. Grant specialises in new and experimental music and is currently working on a 3-year experimental music project in Berlin.

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