Music Inside Out: Going Too Far in Musical Essays

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Routledge, 18 mar 2014 - 200 páginas
John Rahn's prolific activities as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software, editor of Perspectives of New Music during the 1980s and 90s, and author of an exemplary text on atonal theory are conspicuously in the foreground of the academic music-intellectual world. This collection of essays charts Rahn's progression from the construal of music's data structures to the articulation of its experiential structures, leading to the question of its moral infrastructures and its value systems of the internal and external worlds. This book shows Rahn's remarkable intellectual evolution, culminating in the recognition that the pressure bearing on discourse can only be contained by thought formulated in the non-referential language of the arts themselves. Also includes 18 musical examples.
 

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Introduction to the Series
Introduction
Repetition
Differences
Centers Dissenters Music Religion and Politics
Aspects of Musical Explanation
Notes on Methodology in Music Theory
New Research Paradigms
The Nature of Comparison
Logic Set Theory Music Theory
How Do You Du by Milton Babbitt?
What Is Valuable in Art and Can Music Still Achieve It?
Music as Antitheater
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John Rahn is professor of music composition and theory and associate director of the school of music at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Benjamin Boretz is a composer and an influential music the

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