Perspectives on musical aesthetics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
[1994]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the aesthetics of perspectives / John Rahn
- Ritual sacrifice and the political economy of music / Douglas Collins
- Language for one, language for all : Adorno and modernism / Rainer Rochlitz
- Art and entertainment / Eric Gans
- What is valuable in art, and can music still achieve it? / John Rahn
- The beginning and end of esthetic form / Eric Gans
- Contemporary music and the public / Michel Foucault and Pierre Boulez
- Are you serious? / J.K. Randall
- Recent ideas and activities of James K. Randall and Benjamin Boretz : a new social role for music / Fred Everett Maus
- Interface I-V : texts and commentaries on music and life / Benjamin Boretz
- On having been and still being an American composer / Milton Babbitt
- Tokyo lecture and three mesostics / John Cage
- Creativity / Iannis Xenakis
- Composing music / Robert Erickson
- Speculations : on the evolutionary continuity of music and animal communication behavior / David Dunn.
- Four texts / Elaine Barkin
- On the role of affect in artificial intelligence and music / Robert Duisberg
- Environment, consciousness, and magic : an interview with David Dunn / Michael R. Lampert
- Joyce's critique of music / Arthur Nestrovski
- Symposium : the nature of music / Arthur Berger
- Music and emotion / Herbert Schwartz
- Poetry as imitation / Delmore Schwartz
- Music as imitation / Arthur Berger
- For a friend / Clayton Eshleman
- LA / Kenneth Gaburo
- The survival of aesthetics : books, by Boulez, DeLio, Rochberg / Susan Blaustein
- Response to Blaustein / Thomas DeLio
- Open structure and the problem of criticism : reflections on DeLio's Circumscribing the open universe / Herman Sabbe.