THE MODERNIST LEGACY: ESSAYS ON NEW MUSIC by Bjorn Heile (Editor) ( 9780754662600 )

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THE MODERNIST LEGACY: ESSAYS ON NEW MUSIC

By:

Bjorn Heile (Editor)

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Hardback

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0754662608

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9780754662600

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 March, 2009

Pages:

276

Description:

A collection of essays that offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was. It assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism.

Synopsis:

This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus moves away from the binary oppositions that have beset twentieth-century music studies in the past, such as those between modernism and postmodernism, between conceptions of musical autonomy and of cultural contingency and between formalist-analytical and cultural-historical approaches. Focussing particularly on music from the 1970s to the 1990s, the volume assembles approaches from different perspectives to new music with a particular emphasis on a critical reassessment of the meaning and function of the legacy of musical modernism. The authors include scholars, musicologists and composers who combine culturally, socially, historically and aesthetically oriented approaches with analytical methods in imaginative ways.

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Includes 13 b&w illustrations and 26 music examples

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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