Music and the aesthetics of modernity : essays / edited by Karol Berger & Anthony Newcomb.

Other author Berger, Karol, 1947-
Other author Newcomb, Anthony, 1941-2018
Other author Brinkmann, Reinhold, 1934-2010.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Dept. of Music : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxviii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics. --Congresses.
Modernism (Music)--Congresses.

SeriesIsham Library papers ; 6
Harvard publications in music ; 21
Harvard publications in music 21. ^A78369
Isham Library papers 6. ^A682870
Contents Pt. 1. The eighteenth-century origins of modernity. Time's arrow and the advent of musical modernity / Karol Berger -- Spatial graphics / Martin Warnke -- On the beautiful in Mozart / Scott Burnham -- A propos of Buffon's Discours du style / Henri Zerner. Pt. 2. The pre-modernist roots of modernism. The textualization of the context: comic strategies in meta-operas of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries / Hermann Danuser -- John Cage and the principle of chance / Horst Bredekamp. Pt. 3. Aspects of modernism. The hunt for reminiscences in nineteenth-century Germany / Anthony Newcomb -- Some theoretical thoughts about aspects of harmony in Mahler's symphonies / David Lewin -- Beyond the bourgeoisie : social democracy and musical modernism in interwar Austria and Germany / Karen Painter -- Schoenberg's Byron : the Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, the antinomies of modernism, and the problem of German imperialism / Judith L. Ryan -- Ideologies of serialism : Stravinsky's Threni and the Congress for Cultural Freedom / Anne C. Shreffler -- The essence and persistence of modernity / Klaus Kropfinger -- Vom Pfeiffen und von alten Dampfmaschinen, Virgil Thomson, a reply to Milan Kundera, Kurt Schwitters, and my galoshes : perspectives on modern and modernism / Leo Treitler -- Of aprons, buses, and bridges : Kafka's judgment / Peter J. Burgard -- Philosophical exercises in repetition : on music, humor, and exile in Wittgenstein and Adorno / Lydia Goehr. Pt. 4. The anti-hermeneutic impulse : beyond modernity or beyond modernism? Production of presence, interspersed with absence: a modernist view on music, libretti, and staging / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Cipher and performance in Sternberg's Dishonored / Carolyn Abbate.
General notePapers presented at a symposium held at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Harvard Music Department, Nov. 9-11, 2001.
General note"In honor of Reinhold Brinkmann"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Music and the aesthetics of modernity. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Dept. of Music : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005
LCCN 2004021410
ISBN0964031728 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780964031722 (alk. paper)

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