Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe

(Part of the Music in the Twentieth Century Series)

by M.J. Grant

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Serial music was one of the most important aesthetic movements to emerge in post-war Europe, but its uncompromising music and modernist aesthetic has often been misunderstood. This book focuses on the controversial journal die Reihe, whose major contributors included Stockhausen, Eimert, Pousseur, Dieter Schnebel and G. M. Koenig, and discusses it in connection with many lesser-known sources in German musicology. It traces serialism's debt to the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521619920

ISBN13:9780521619929

Release Date:June 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:284 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 7.4" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Composition Education & Reference History & Criticism Music Performing Arts

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Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe

(Part of the Music in the Twentieth Century Series)

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