The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century MusicUniversity of Michigan Press, 2004 - 262 páginas A revised paperback edition of composer George Rochberg's landmark essays "Rochberg presents the rare spectacle of a composer who has made his peace with tradition while maintaining a strikingly individual profile. . . . [H]e succeeds in transforming the sublime concepts of traditional music into contemporary language." ---Washington Post "An indispensable book for anyone who wishes to understand the sad and curious fate of music in the twentieth century." ---Atlantic Monthly "The writings of George Rochberg stand as a pinnacle from which our past and future can be viewed." ---Kansas City Star As a composer, George Rochberg has played a leading role in bringing about a transformation of contemporary music through a reassessment of its relation to tonality, melody, and harmony. In The Aesthetics of Survival, the author addresses the legacy of modernism in music and its related effect on the cultural milieu, particularly its overemphasis on the abstract, rationalist thinking embraced by contemporary science, technology, and philosophy. Rochberg argues for the renewal of holistic values in order to ensure the survival of music as a humanly expressive art. A renowned composer, thinker, and teacher, George Rochberg has been honored with innumerable awards, including, most recently, an Alfred I. du Pont Award for Outstanding Conductors and Composers, and an André and Clara Mertens Contemporary Composer Award. He lives in Pennsylvania. |
Contenido
On Schoenberg and Serialism | 27 |
On Musical Time and Space | 59 |
5889 | 68 |
On Music Humanism and Culture | 127 |
On the Fantastic and the Logical | 185 |
On the Renewal of Music | 223 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music George Rochberg Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music George Rochberg Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
The Aesthetics of Survival: A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music George Rochberg Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
Términos y frases comunes
abstract Abstract Expressionism acoustical space aesthetic Anton Webern Arnold Schoenberg articulation artist atonality aural facts avant-garde becomes Beethoven called central nervous system chance music chromaticism composer composition concrete created culture dear Igor direction duration electronic music elements emergence energy essay essential existence experience expression fiction forces function George Rochberg gesture harmonic human illusion imagination indeterminacy intuition kitsch language living logical Luigi Russolo means measure melody memory mental metric mind modern motion movement Mozart musical ideas musical space nature objects organization paradigm past perception phrase physical pitch polyphony possible precisely present problems produced projection projective verse prototype rational reality realm relation relationship rhythmic Schoenberg sense serial music shape silence sound structure space-form spatial image speech-form style Superforce symmetry temporal tendency things time-space conjunction tion tonality tone total serialism tradition twentieth century universe Varèse Varèse's Webern World Consciousness