Problems of modern music : the Princeton seminar in advanced musical studies / edited by Paul Henry Lang.
| Author/creator | Lang, Paul Henry editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,,c1962, ©1960. |
| Description | 121 pages + [2] pages advertisements : charts, music ; 20 cm |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Norton library, N115 Norton library ; N115. ^A910560 |
| Contents | Problems and issues facing the composer today / Roger Sessions -- Analysis today / Edward T. Cone -- Shop talk by an American composer / Elliott Carter -- Notes on a piece for tape recorder / Vladimir Ussachevsky -- Extents and limits of serial techniques / Ernst Krenek -- Bartok's "serial" composition / Allen Forte -- Twelve-tone invariants as compositional determinants / Milton Babbitt. |
| Abstract | By way of introduction we may sketch in the background from which this mid-century stock-taking grew, and perhaps add a few comments of our own. The first half of the 20th century passed under the sign of violent antitheses. First there was revolutionary dissolution, followed by severe, tradition-oriented concentration; emphatic subjectivity, then dogged objectivity and studied collectivism, The same extremes can be detected in the constituent features of music. Form became so fragmented that its dangling remnants could hardly be detected, but subsequently it solidified, triumphantly rediscovering age-old esthetic tenets and then petrified. |
| General note | "Copyright 1960 by G. Schirmer, inc. First published in 1962 by arrangement with The musical quarterly, in which the chapters originally appeared." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 62003417 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk | ML197.L27 P7 1962 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |