Ebook: The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology

The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Berg's Wozzeck and Webern's Symphony Op. 21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical control, the unusual musical practices of the Velvet Underground, and Stanley Kubrick's use of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna in the epic film 2001. The composers discussed in these pages -- including Bartók, Stockhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Steve Reich, and many others -- are modernists in that they are defined by their individualism, whether covert or overt, and share a basic urge toward redesigning musical discourse. The aim of this volume is to neg.  Read more...