Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics: Compositional Theory in Post-War Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521619929)

Composers of serial music in post-war Europe wrote almost as much about music as the music itself, but the relationship between theory and practice in the work of key figures like Stockhausen, Eimert, Pousseur and Schnebel has often been misrepresented. Focusing on the controversial journal Die Reihe, this book traces serialism's cultural history, its debt to the artistic theories of Klee and Mondrian, and its relationship to contemporary developments in concrete art, poetry and information aesthetics. It sketches a aesthetic theory of serialism as an experimental music.

Author: M. J. Grant
ISBN-10: 0521619920
ISBN-13: 9780521619929
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2005
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.60d