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By Alastair Williams

ISBN-10: 1138269077

ISBN-13: 9781138269071

due to the fact 1945 the emphasis in new track has lain in a wish for growth, an idea challenged via postmodernist aesthetics. during this learn, Alastair Williams identifies and explores the ordinary matters and difficulties awarded by means of post-war song. half one examines the German thinker, Theodor Adorno's portrayal of modernity and his figuring out of modernism in track. this is often via a survey of the advancements in track from overdue Beethoven to Schoenberg, the 2 composers whose works supplied the most anchor issues for Adorno's philosophy of track. elements and 3 point out the ways that Adorno's aesthetics are pertinent to an knowing of recent track. half includes an in depth exam of the song of Pierre Boulez and John Cage, composers who signify severe, notwithstanding comparable, points of latest track inspiration: the primacy of constitution as opposed to dissolution. Williams' perspectives the track of Ligeti as an exploration of the interface among those extremes, personifying Adorno's advocation of a cultured which makes an attempt to embody all its assorted components. partially 3 the implications of modernism and the classy methods of Derrida and de Mann are thought of, including the song of Wolfgang Rihm. Williams concludes with a survey of up to date track and the postmodernist wish to comprise a number compositional references.

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