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'One of the most impressive theoretical and analytical achievements of this book is its promotion and development of a more 'harmonic' approach to contemporary music - even to the most radically pointillistic works of the early 1950s... the overall impression is of a concerted musicological effort to rethink new music beyond the fragmenting effects of Fortean pitch-set theory to sophisticated harmonic and polyphonic models that encourage the detailed and nuanced interpretation of individual works. It is not only in these large projects that this book succeeds, however. Some of the most eloquent and perceptive writers on contemporary music have been assembled here, and the details of the text are often as rewarding and provocative as the bigger picture... its overall contribution to contemporary music studies is substantial; it deserves to be a fixture on reading lists for many years to come.' Tempo 'Hats off to Max Paddison, who acted as an overall translator and translations editor. With great devotion he looked for English equivalents of sometimes almost untranslatable terms. This renders the essays of among others Deliege and Decroupet (who mostly publish in French and German) accessible to Anglophone readers in the best possible way... a coherent collection of essays and interviews...' Musicae scientiae

'One of the most impressive theoretical and analytical achievements of this book is its promotion and development of a more 'harmonic' approach to contemporary music - even to the most radically pointillistic works of the early 1950s... the overall impression is of a concerted musicological effort to rethink new music beyond the fragmenting effects of Fortean pitch-set theory to sophisticated harmonic and polyphonic models that encourage the detailed and nuanced interpretation of individual works. It is not only in these large projects that this book succeeds, however. Some of the most eloquent and perceptive writers on contemporary music have been assembled here, and the details of the text are often as rewarding and provocative as the bigger picture... its overall contribution to contemporary music studies is substantial; it deserves to be a fixture on reading lists for many years to come.' Tempo 'Hats off to Max Paddison, who acted as an overall translator and translations editor. With great devotion he looked for English equivalents of sometimes almost untranslatable terms. This renders the essays of among others Deliege and Decroupet (who mostly publish in French and German) accessible to Anglophone readers in the best possible way... a coherent collection of essays and interviews...' Musicae scientiae

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Max Paddison is Professor of Music Aesthetics, Department of Music, University of Durham, UK. He is the author of Adorno's Aesthetics of Music and Adorno, Modernism and Mass Culture. Irene Deliege, University of Liege, Belgium, is founding editor of the journal Musicae Scientiae and founding member of ESCOM, the European Society of the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Irene Deliege, Max Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Celestin Deliege, Rudolf Frisius, Richard Toop, Pascal Decroupet, Herman Sabbe, Francois Nicolas, Anne Boissiere, Marc Jimenez, Jonathan Harvey, David Walters, Lois Fitch, John Hails, Abigail Heathcote, Richard McGregor, Alastair Williams.

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