Boulez, Music and Philosophy

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Cambridge University Press, 19 ago 2010 - 281 páginas
While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard to music, this study investigates a series of philosophically charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his music. Campbell examines significant encounters which link Boulez to the work of a number of important philosophers and thinkers, including Adorno, Lévi-Strauss, Eco and Deleuze. Relating Boulez's music and ideas to broader currents of thought, the book illuminates a number of affinities linking music and philosophy, and also literature and visual art. These connections facilitate enhanced understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez's distinctive approach to composition. Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished documentary sources and providing musical analysis of a number of key scores, the book traces the changing musical, philosophical and intellectual currents which inform Boulez's work.
 

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1 Preparing the ground
1
2 Early influences and movements
10
3 Dialectic negation and binary oppositions
37
4 Boulez Adorno and serial critique
68
5 Deduction and the scientific model
97
6 Serialism and structuralism
112
7 Poststructuralist encounters
138
8 Boulez difference and repetition
154
9 Expanding the virtual
193
10 Continuity and discontinuity of space and time
219
In conclusion
253
References
258
Index
274
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Edward Campbell is a Lecturer in the Music Department / School of Education at the University of Aberdeen where he co-ordinates the music education programmes and teaches courses in aesthetics, contemporary music, music education and visual culture. He is also a participant in the university's Centre for Modern Thought.

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