Processual tonality and the psychoacoustics of chromaticism /
"Adorno, who without mincing words states that "the later works disgrace the early ones" (Adorno 1966, 126). Adorno is particularly scathing in his criticism of Strauss' continued use of tonality, and the concomitant reliance on consonance and dissonance: "The distinction be...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | "Adorno, who without mincing words states that "the later works disgrace the early ones" (Adorno 1966, 126). Adorno is particularly scathing in his criticism of Strauss' continued use of tonality, and the concomitant reliance on consonance and dissonance: "The distinction between the two is left undisturbed; dissonance retains its relation to consonance instead, as in the new music, of abolishing it and itself as well. Inversely, in the last scores the exhumed consonance is already so putrefied that it arouses nausea; music which has been debased to a delicacy comes to self-consciousness with revulsion" (1966, 126). As Richard Wattenbarger describes, Adorno's critiques of Strauss may appear unremarkable today, but its effect on musicological views and approaches to Strauss should not be underestimated (2001-2002, 314)"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197800287 0197800289 9780197800300 0197800300 9780197800294 0197800297 |