| Contents |
Introduction / by William Bolcom -- On the new image of music. Indeterminacy in the new music (1959) ; The new image of music (1963) -- On Schoenberg and serialism. My dear Igor (an imaginary dialogue) (1957) ; Reflections on Schoenberg (1972) -- On musical time and space. Duration in music (1960) ; The concepts of musical time and space (1963) -- On music, humanism, and culture. No center (1969) ; Humanism versus science (1970) ; Fiddlers and fribbles or is art a separate reality? (1986) ; News of the culture or news of the universe? (1988) ; Talking to Luigi Russolo eighty-five years later (1998) -- On the fantastic and the logical. Aural fact or fiction: or, composing at the seashore (1965) ; The fantastic and the logical: reflections on science, politics, and art (1973) ; The marvelous in art (1982) -- On the renewal of music. The avant-garde and the aesthetics of survival (1969) ; Guston and me: digression and return (1992) ; Polarity in music: symmetry, asymmetry, and their consequences (1995) ; L'Envoi (1998). |
| Abstract |
In this book, Rochberg addresses the legacy of modernism in music and its related effect on the cultural milieu, particularly its overemphasis on the abstract, rationalist thinking embraced by contemporary science, technology, and philosophy. He argues for the renewal of holistic values in order to ensure the survival of music as a humanly expressive art. |
| General note | Essays. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004051645 |
| ISBN | 0472030264 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
