Impossible music
By: edited by Panayiotis Demopoulos
Series: Contemporary music review -- v. 29, Pt. 4; Contemporary music review -- v. 29, pt. 4.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Music; History and criticism
Description: "The eight essays in this issue are about music that is impossible [from the author's point of view]: to hear (Jerry Wigens); to read (Simon Clarke); to perform (Valerie Pearson); to archive (Marco Viconti-Prasca); to define (Chris Macklin); to decipher (Michael Peters); and to accomplish (Bill Brooks); my own article is on music which is impossible to know." / Panayiotis Demopoulos.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Panayiotis Demopoulos; title: ... echoes long ago  -- Jerry Wigens; title: Line and colour : instrumental (ir)rationality in Adorno's musicology  -- Simon Clarke; title: Authorship and improvisation : musical lost property  -- Valerie Pearson; title: The condition of the improvisor (moments and monuments : mission impossible)  -- Marco Visconti-Prasca; title: Musical irrationality in the shadow of Pythagoras  -- Christopher Macklin; title: From strange to impossible : interactive attractor music  -- Michael Peters; title: Protest, progress and (im)possible music  -- William Brooks; title: Musica incognita : seven impractical arguments -- Panayiotis Demopoulos.