Music And The Aesthetics Of Modernity
Author | : Karol Berger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674017838 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674017832 |
Rating | : 4/5 (832 Downloads) |
Download or read book Music And The Aesthetics Of Modernity written by Karol Berger and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most music historians, the modernism of the twentieth century was until recently the only appearance of the "modern" in music. The widely perceived recent decline of musical modernism makes it now possible to see the modernism of the twentieth century as a chapter in a much longer story. The principal purpose of the present book is to encourage a debate over musical modernity; a debate that would consider the question whether an examination of the history of European art music may enrich our picture of modernity and whether our understanding of music's development may be transformed by insights into the nature of modernity provided by other historical disciplines.