Author: Jonathan D. Kramer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501306030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of postmodernism in music. Kramer created a series of markers by which we can identify postmodern works. He suggests that the postmodern project actually creates a radically different relationship between the composer and listener. Written with wit, precision, and at times playfully subverting traditional tropes to make a very serious point about this difference, Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening leads us to a strongly grounded intellectual basis for stylistic description and an intuitive sensibility of what postmodernism in music entails. Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening is an examination of how musical postmodernism is not just a style or movement, but a fundamental shift in the relationship between composer and listener. The result is a multifaceted and provocative look at a critical turning point in music history, one whose implications we are only just beginning to understand.
Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening
Author: Jonathan D. Kramer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501306030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of postmodernism in music. Kramer created a series of markers by which we can identify postmodern works. He suggests that the postmodern project actually creates a radically different relationship between the composer and listener. Written with wit, precision, and at times playfully subverting traditional tropes to make a very serious point about this difference, Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening leads us to a strongly grounded intellectual basis for stylistic description and an intuitive sensibility of what postmodernism in music entails. Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening is an examination of how musical postmodernism is not just a style or movement, but a fundamental shift in the relationship between composer and listener. The result is a multifaceted and provocative look at a critical turning point in music history, one whose implications we are only just beginning to understand.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501306030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Kramer was one of the most visionary musical thinkers of the second half of the 20th century. In his The Time of Music, he approached the idea of the many different ways that time itself is articulated musically. This book has become influential among composers, theorists, and aestheticians. Now, in his almost completed text written before his untimely death in 2004, he examines the concept of postmodernism in music. Kramer created a series of markers by which we can identify postmodern works. He suggests that the postmodern project actually creates a radically different relationship between the composer and listener. Written with wit, precision, and at times playfully subverting traditional tropes to make a very serious point about this difference, Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening leads us to a strongly grounded intellectual basis for stylistic description and an intuitive sensibility of what postmodernism in music entails. Postmodern Music, Postmodern Listening is an examination of how musical postmodernism is not just a style or movement, but a fundamental shift in the relationship between composer and listener. The result is a multifaceted and provocative look at a critical turning point in music history, one whose implications we are only just beginning to understand.
Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought
Author: Judy Lochhead
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135717788
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135717788
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Postmodernism in Music
Author: Kenneth Gloag
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521151570
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
What is postmodernism? How does it relate to music? This introduction clarifies the concept, providing ways of interpreting postmodern music.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521151570
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
What is postmodernism? How does it relate to music? This introduction clarifies the concept, providing ways of interpreting postmodern music.
Postmodernism, Music and Cultural Theory
Author: David Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Demonstrates how theories of postmodernism as 'incredulity toward grand narrative' speak to musical history and aesthetics. This book illustrates how music has figured centrally in poststructuralist theory and can itself open up fresh perspectives for reassessing that theory.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Demonstrates how theories of postmodernism as 'incredulity toward grand narrative' speak to musical history and aesthetics. This book illustrates how music has figured centrally in poststructuralist theory and can itself open up fresh perspectives for reassessing that theory.
Beyond Structural Listening?
Author: Andrew Dell'Antonio
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520237579
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Rose Subotnik criticized 'structural listening' as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The authors of this volume take up her challenge, writing on repertoires ranging from Beethoven to MTV.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520237579
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Rose Subotnik criticized 'structural listening' as an attempt to situate musical meaning solely within the unfolding of the musical structure itself. The authors of this volume take up her challenge, writing on repertoires ranging from Beethoven to MTV.
Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge
Author: Lawrence Kramer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918428
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from real-world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than transcendent. Now Lawrence Kramer shows how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints. Kramer draws out the musical implications of contemporary efforts to understand reason, language, and subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical expression begun in his earlier Music as Cultural Practice, he regards music not only as an object that invites aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the personal, social, and cultural identities of its listeners. In language accessible to nonspecialists but informative to specialists, Kramer provides an original account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918428
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A leading cultural theorist and musicologist opens up new possibilities for understanding mainstream Western art music—the "classical" music composed between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries that is, for many, losing both its prestige and its appeal. When this music is regarded esoterically, removed from real-world interests, it increasingly sounds more evasive than transcendent. Now Lawrence Kramer shows how classical music can take on new meaning and new life when approached from postmodernist standpoints. Kramer draws out the musical implications of contemporary efforts to understand reason, language, and subjectivity in relation to concrete human activities rather than to universal principles. Extending the rethinking of musical expression begun in his earlier Music as Cultural Practice, he regards music not only as an object that invites aesthetic reception but also as an activity that vitally shapes the personal, social, and cultural identities of its listeners. In language accessible to nonspecialists but informative to specialists, Kramer provides an original account of the postmodernist ethos, explains its relationship to music, and explores that relationship in a series of case studies ranging from Haydn and Mendelssohn to Ives and Ravel.
Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature
Author: Justin St. Clair
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780203073513
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780203073513
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Sounding Postmodernism
Author: David Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909168643
Category : Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sounding postmodernism: sampling Australian composers, sound artists and music critics.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780909168643
Category : Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sounding postmodernism: sampling Australian composers, sound artists and music critics.
Listening to Popular Music, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin
Author: Theodore Gracyk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher description
Music Composition in the 21st Century
Author: Robert Carl
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501357603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques. How have trends in music developed over the past decades? Music Composition in the 21st Century is a guide for composers and students that helps them navigate the often daunting complexity and abundance of resources and influences that confront them as they work to achieve a personal expression. From pop to classical, the book speaks to the creative ways that new composers mix and synthesize music, creating a music that exists along a more continuous spectrum rather than in a series of siloed practices. It pays special attention to a series of critical issues that have surfaced in recent years, including harmony, the influence of minimalism, the impact of technology, strategies of "openness," sound art, collaboration, and improvisation. Robert Carl identifies an emerging common practice that allows creators to make more informed aesthetic and technical decisions and also fosters an inherently positive approach to new methods.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501357603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques. How have trends in music developed over the past decades? Music Composition in the 21st Century is a guide for composers and students that helps them navigate the often daunting complexity and abundance of resources and influences that confront them as they work to achieve a personal expression. From pop to classical, the book speaks to the creative ways that new composers mix and synthesize music, creating a music that exists along a more continuous spectrum rather than in a series of siloed practices. It pays special attention to a series of critical issues that have surfaced in recent years, including harmony, the influence of minimalism, the impact of technology, strategies of "openness," sound art, collaboration, and improvisation. Robert Carl identifies an emerging common practice that allows creators to make more informed aesthetic and technical decisions and also fosters an inherently positive approach to new methods.