The modernist legacy
Subtitle: essays on new music
By: edited by Bjorn Heile.
Contributors: Heile, Björn.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780754662600
Subjects: Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Music); Avant-garde (Music)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New music, social debates and the aesthetics of critical modernism. Modernism's moment of plenitude / Andrew Timms ; Fields of rubble : on the poetics of music after the postmodern / John Croft ; Spectralism, politics and the post-industrial imagination / Eric Drott ; The scream in avant-garde music : the new left and the rediscovery of the body / Beate Kutschke ; Verbal discourse as aesthetic arbitrator in contemporary music / Ian Pace ; Weltmusik and the globalization of new music / Björn Heile; title: Aspects of compositional poetics. Temps perdu : Aldo Clementi and the eclipse of music as praxis / David Osmond-Smith ;  Feldman - Beckett - Johns : patterning, memory and subjectivity / Catherine Laws ; Brian Ferneyhough, postmodern modernist / Lois Fitch ; The electroacoustic music of Henri Poussseur and the open form / John Dack ; Self-portrait with Boulez and Machaut (and Ligeti is there as well) : Harrison Birtwistle's Hoquetus petrus / Mark Delaere ; Local polymetric structures in Elliott Carter's 90+ for piano (1994) / Ève Poudrier.