Perspectives on musical aesthetics /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rahn, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, [1994]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
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.