Musical Idea and the Design Aesthetic in Contemporary Music a Text for Discerning Appraisal of Musical Thought in Western Culture
| Author: | Taylor, Clifford | |
| Year: | 1990 | |
| Pages: | 386 | |
| ISBN: | 0-88946-432-4 978-0-88946-432-2 | |
| Price: | $239.95 + shipping | |
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Proposes a reaffirmation, for musical composition, of imaginative figurational invention as idea within expressive harmonic syntax. This challenges the tendency in 20th-century music toward systematization and process affording only textural