Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Tapa dura - 2009

Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. x + 254 . Hardback. New.

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Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Hardcover. like new with marginalia by knowledgeable hand and moderate amount of very light pencil underlining throughout. black cloth and board with color illustration. 254 pages : illustrations, music. contents as follows: Purity -- Modern silence -- The fragmentary -- Lament -- Sonic flux. Providing an interesting approach to developments in modernist music - from 1980 onwards - this 2009 study also presents an intriguing perspective on the larger history of modernism. Far from being supplanted by a postmodern period, argues David Metzer, modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary scene. The vitality comes from the ways in which those idioms have extended impulses of modernist styles from the early twentieth century. Since that time, works have participated in lines of inquiry into various compositional and aesthetic topics, particularly the explorations of how to build pieces around such aesthetic ideals as purity and silence and how… Leer más

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Hardback. New. In this book, David Metzer provides intriguing perspectives on both developments in music from 1980 onwards and the larger history of modernism, showing how modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary scene. The study investigates what makes the decades after 1980 a distinct period in the history of modernism.

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