Dead composers, living audiences, and the situation of classical music in the twenty-first century
By: Gerald L. Phillips.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781604975581
Subjects: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Musical canon
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Themes and variations. Diction : a rhapsody ; Singing, creativity and courage ; A modest proposal; title: Words, music and meaning. Words and words, words and the world : intertextuality ; Music and words I : musike ; Music and words II : Nietzsche and the birth of tragedy; title: Science, music, paradigms, and meaning. Science and paradigms ; Science and music : paradigms and "normal practitioners" ; Einstein and Schoenberg : the move to radical abstraction ; Modernism and the "end" of paradigms; title: Modernism and postmodernism : self, difference, and reconciliation. Modernism, postmodernism and the reproduction of distraction ; Self, difference, and reconciliation.