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Author:   Alastair Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.330kg
ISBN:  

9781138269071

ISBN 10:   1138269077
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   17 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introductions; Part One Modernity: Critical Theory and Aesthetic Modernity: Modernity; Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Culture Industry; Truth as Negation: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory; Second Generation Critical Theory; Alienated Music: Beethoven to Schoenberg: The Beethoven Critique and Nineteenth-Century Music; Dialectic of Modernity: Schoenberg and Stravinsky; Part Two High Modernism and After: Construction and Indeterminacy: Boulez and Cage; High Modernism; Boulez's Third Piano Sonata; Cage; Modernism Inside Out; Music and Deconstruction; Illusion and Space: Ligeti; Part III Consequences of Modernism: Separate Ways; A Dialectical Circus on Roaratorio; The Persistence of Modernism: Rèpons; Discourses of Modernity; Aesthetics Reclaimed; Postmodernism; Engaging Tradition; Wolfgang Rihm; In Search of Subjectivity; Bibliography; Name and title Index; Subject Index.

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’Alastair Williams' book is a thoroughly researched and intelligent attempt to analyze the philiosophical backgrounds or implications of modernism and postmodernism in music.' Musicae Scientiae, vol 4, no 2

'Alastair Williams' book is a thoroughly researched and intelligent attempt to analyze the philiosophical backgrounds or implications of modernism and postmodernism in music.' Musicae Scientiae, vol 4, no 2

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