Metamusic versusthe Sound of Music: A Critique of Serialism
| Author: | Thomson, William | |
| Year: | 2010 | |
| Pages: | 252 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-3807-6 978-0-7734-3807-1 | |
| Price: | $199.95 + shipping | |
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This study utilizes knowledge banks: acoustics, cognition/perception, ethnomusicology and cultural records in probing Serialism’s basic assumptions. It examines analyses by such leaders in the serialist world as Milton Babbitt, David Lewin and Allen Forte.
Reviews
“. . . a welcome addition to [the author’s] influential series of contributions to music and arts criticism.” – Prof. David Butler, Ohio State University
“The colorful prose strikes me as uniquely (and delightfully) suited to the subject matter at hand, and the case presented is compelling.” – Prof. Don Gibson, Florida State University
“The colorful prose strikes me as uniquely (and delightfully) suited to the subject matter at hand, and the case presented is compelling.” – Prof. Don Gibson, Florida State University
Table of Contents
Foreword by David Butler
Acknowledgments
Prologue Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
Chapter 2 Music’s Epiphany: “The Most Abstract of the Arts”
Chapter 3 Those Kindred Fruits of Revolution
Chapter 4 Dashes of Sonic Reality—Midst Heavy Theory-Spinning
Chapter 5 Meanwhile: Beyond Our West-European Orbit
Chapter 6 Empirical Psychology’s Verdict
Ent?acte Serialist Seeds in Full Bloom
Chapter 7 Masters of MetaMusic
Chapter 8 . . .and the Beat Goes On
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Prologue Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
Chapter 2 Music’s Epiphany: “The Most Abstract of the Arts”
Chapter 3 Those Kindred Fruits of Revolution
Chapter 4 Dashes of Sonic Reality—Midst Heavy Theory-Spinning
Chapter 5 Meanwhile: Beyond Our West-European Orbit
Chapter 6 Empirical Psychology’s Verdict
Ent?acte Serialist Seeds in Full Bloom
Chapter 7 Masters of MetaMusic
Chapter 8 . . .and the Beat Goes On
Bibliography
Index