Serial music, serial aesthetics : compositional theory in post-war Europe

Serial music, serial aesthetics : compositional theory in post-war Europe /

"Serial music was one of the most important aesthetic movements to emerge in post-war Europe, but its uncompromising music and modernist aesthetic have often been misunderstood."

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, M. J. (Morag Josephine), 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Music in the twentieth century
Subjects:
1900-1999
Music > Europe > 20th century > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Serialism (Music)
Art and music > History > 20th century.
Music and language > History > 20th century.
Musique > Europe > 20e siècle > Philosophie et esthétique.
Musique sérielle.
Art et musique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Musique et langage > Histoire > 20e siècle.
serial music.
Art and music.
Music and language.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Geschichte
Musikästhetik.
Serielle Musik
20e siècle.
Esthétique musicale.
Histoire.
Europe.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. European culture in the post-war years
  • 2. The isolated tone: electronic and serial music, 1945-1954
  • 3. Electronic music: 'chaos or order'?
  • 4. Webern and Debussy
  • 5. Serial music as an aleatoric process
  • 6. 'Das Serielle'
  • 7. Music and language
  • 8. Serial theory, serial practice: wherefore, and why?

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