Music in Germany since 1968

Music in Germany since 1968
Title Music in Germany since 1968 PDF eBook
Author Alastair Williams
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 293
Release 2013-07-18
Genre Music
ISBN 1107067103

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Music in Germany since 1968 modifies the dominant historiography of music in post-war Germany by shifting its axis from the years of reconstruction after 1945 to the era following the events of 1968. Arguing that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of music in Germany, Alastair Williams examines the key topics, including responses to serialism, music and politics, and the re-evaluation of tradition. The book devotes central chapters to Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm, as focal points for areas such as postmodernism, musical semiotics and action-based gestures. Further chapters widen the scope by considering the precursors and contemporaries of Rihm and Lachenmann, especially in relation to the idea of historical inclusion. Williams's study also assesses the development of the Darmstadt summer courses, addresses the significance of German reunification, and considers the role of Germany in a new stage of musical modernism.

Music in Germany Since 1968

Music in Germany Since 1968
Title Music in Germany Since 1968 PDF eBook
Author Alastair Williams
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 293
Release 2013-07-18
Genre History
ISBN 0521877598

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Alastair Williams argues that the social transformations of 1968 led to a new phase of art music in Germany.

Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic

Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic
Title Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic PDF eBook
Author Kyle Frackman
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 276
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 1571139168

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Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.

Wolfgang Rihm, a Chiffre

Wolfgang Rihm, a Chiffre
Title Wolfgang Rihm, a Chiffre PDF eBook
Author Yves Knockaert
Publisher Leuven University Press
Pages 341
Release 2017-11-21
Genre Music
ISBN 9462701237

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The elusive and ungraspable in Rihms’s music Wolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quartets. Thinking about Rihm includes reflecting on his interest in philosophy, his relation to fine arts, his awareness of principles found in nature, and his references to important composers from the past. His music is embedded in the past and the actuality in modernism and postmodernism. Notwithstanding Rihm’s generosity in essays and introductions to his works, many aspects of the ‘inner sound’ of his music stay an elusive, ungraspable ‘chiffre’: a challenge for the analyst. With Foreword by Richard McGregor (Professor Emeritus, University of Cumbria)

Music After the Fall

Music After the Fall
Title Music After the Fall PDF eBook
Author Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 362
Release 2017-02
Genre History
ISBN 0520283147

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Music and Protest in 1968

Music and Protest in 1968
Title Music and Protest in 1968 PDF eBook
Author Beate Kutschke
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 343
Release 2013-04-25
Genre Music
ISBN 1107244501

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Music was integral to the profound cultural, social and political changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the role that music played in the events of that year, which included protests against the ongoing Vietnam War, the May riots in France and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. From underground folk music in Japan to antiauthoritarian music in Scandinavia and Germany, Music and Protest in 1968 explores music's key role as a means of socio-political dissent not just in the US and the UK but in Asia, North and South America, Europe and Africa. Contributors extend the understanding of musical protest far beyond a narrow view of the 'protest song' to explore how politics and social protest played out in many genres, including experimental and avant-garde music, free jazz, rock, popular song, and film and theatre music.

Contemporary Music

Contemporary Music
Title Contemporary Music PDF eBook
Author Irène Deliège
Publisher Routledge
Pages 442
Release 2016-05-13
Genre Music
ISBN 1317160681

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This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Edited by Max Paddison and Irène Deliège, the book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers and composers, including Célestin Deliège, Pascal Decroupet, Richard Toop, Rudolf Frisius, Alastair Williams, Herman Sabbe, François Nicolas, Marc Jimenez, Anne Boissière, Max Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Jonathan Harvey, and new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm. Part I is mainly theoretical in emphasis. Issues addressed include the historical rationalization of music and technology, new approaches to the theorization of atonal harmony in the wake of Spectralism, debates on the 'new complexity', the heterogeneity, pluralism and stylistic omnivorousness that characterizes music in our time, and the characterization of twentieth-century and contemporary music as a 'search for lost harmony'. The orientation of Part II is mainly philosophical, examining concepts of totality and inclusivity in new music, raising questions as to what might be expected from an autonomous contemporary musical logic, and considering the problem of the survival of the avant-garde in the context of postmodernist relativism. As well as analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology, critical theory features prominently, with theories of social mediation in music, new perspectives on the concept of musical material in Adorno's late aesthetic theory, and a call for 'an aesthetics of risk' in contemporary art as a means 'to reassert the essential role of criticism, of judgment, and of evaluation as necessary conditions to bring about a real public debate on the art of today'. Part III offers creative perspectives, with new essays and interviews from important contemporary composers who have mad