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Order and Disorder: Music-Theoretical Strategies in 20th Century Music
Contributor(s): Dunsby, Jonathan (Author), Straus, Joseph N. (Author), Knockaert, Yves (Author)
ISBN: 9058673693     ISBN-13: 9789058673695
Publisher: Leuven University Press
OUR PRICE:   $24.70  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2008
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BISAC Categories:
- History
- Music | Religious - General
- Music | Instruction & Study - Theory
Dewey: 780.904
Series: Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.56 lbs) 174 pages
 
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Order and Disorder is the result of the first International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory, held in 2003. Its theme was 20th century music and theory, especially after the 1950s. Five guest lecturers discussed theoretical, historical and philosophical aspects of this theme in six articles. In Music-Analytical Trends of the Twentieth Century, Jonathan Dunsby discusses key features in the development of music analysis from prestructuralist to postmodern times. Joseph N. Straus describes different ways in which intervallic and motivic ideas of the musical surface in atonal music are projected over larger spans. Yves Knockaert investigates the controllability of non-intention in Cage's work, the compositional approach of Morton Feldman's floating thoughts and the raw state of Wolfgang Rihm's music of the 1980s. In Nature and the Sublime: the Politics of Order and Disorder in Twentieth-Century Music, Max Paddison exposes a history of the concept of nature in relation to music with some references to literature and the visual arts. Konrad Boehmer analyses several aspects of the political economy of music in Music and Politics. In Towards a Terza Prattica, he focuses on the perspectives of the paradigmatic change which electric music has caused.


Contributor Bio(s): Knockaert, Yves: - Yves Knockaert is professor of history of music, philosophy of music, and contemporary music and researcher at LUCA School of Arts, Campus Lemmens (Leuven).