The pleasure of modernist music : listening, meaning, intention, ideology / edited by Arved Ashby.

Other author Ashby, Arved Mark.
Format Book
Publication InfoRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2004.
Descriptionviii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Music--20th century. --History and critcism.
Modernism (Music)

SeriesEastman studies in music, 1071-9989
Eastman studies in music. 1071-9989 ^A494093
Contents Part I. Reception and politics. Intention and meaning in modernist music / Arved Ashby -- The end of the mannerist century / William Bolcom -- A fine analysis / Greg Sandow -- In memory of a receding dialectic: the political relevance of autonomy and formalism in modernist musical aesthetics / Martin Scherzinger -- Part II. Methaphors for modernism. Twentieth-century tonality, or, breaking up is hard to do / Lloyd Whitesell -- "Tone-color, movement, changing harmonic planes": cognition, constraints and conception blends in modernist music / Amy Bauer -- Sexual and musical categories / Fred Everett Maus -- Listening to schizophrenia: the Wozzeck case / Jeremy Tambling -- Part III. Writing and listening. The musician writes: for the eyes of the deaf? / Pierre Boulez -- "Are you sure you can't hear it?": some informal reflections on simple information and listening / Richard Toop -- Part IV. Case study. A fine madness / Greg Sandow -- "One man's signal is another man's noise": personal encounters with post-tonal music / Andrew Mead -- Part V. Belated modernism. The "Modernization" of rock and roll, 1965-75 / Jonathan W. Bernard -- Refiguring the modernist program for hearing: Steve Reich and George Rochberg / Judy Lochhead -- Modernism goes to the movies / Arved Ashby.
Abstract The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century. The composers discussed in these pages - including Bela Bartok, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Steve Reich, and many others - were modernists in that they shared a basic, individualist impulse to redesign music. This is the first book to stake out a principled middle ground between two standard polemical positions about modernist music: the one attacking it as elitist, overly intellectual, and often incomprehensible; the other defending it as a music-evolutionary stage deemed "necessary" but also beyond the reach of words. With an emphasis on recent contexts and debates - including film music, sexuality, metaphor, and ideas of a listening grammar - the contributors trace the meanings that such works and composers hold for listeners of different kinds.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004011370
ISBN1580461433 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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