The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology

Book Overview

An exploration of the meaning and reception of "modernist" music.

The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Strauss's Elektra and Webern's Symphony Op.21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical control, the unusual musical practices of the Velvet Underground, and Stanley Kubrick's use of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna in the epic film 2001. The composers discussed in these pages -- including Bart k, Stockhausen, Bernard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580463754
• ISBN13: 9781580463751
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"