The pleasure of modernist music
Subtitle: listening, meaning, intention, ideology
By: edited by Arved Ashby.
Contributors: Ashby, Arved Mark.
Series: Eastman studies in music
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century. The composers discussed in these pages - including Bela Bartok, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Steve Reich, and many others - were modernists in that they shared a basic, individualist impulse to redeisgn music." "This is the first book to stake out a principled middle ground between two standard polemical positions about modernist music: the one attacking it as elitist, overly intellectual, and often incomprehensible; the other defending it as a music-evolutionary stage deemed "necessary" but also beyond the reach of words." "With an emphasis on recent contexts and debates - including film music, sexuality, metaphor, and ideas of a listening grammar - the contributors trace the meanings that such works and composers hold for listeners of different kinds."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reception & politics; title: Metaphors for modernism; title: Writing & listening; title: Case study; title: Belated modernism.