Composing Modernism: Musical Formalism and the Experimental Turn in the Princeton School (Volume 33) (California Studies in 20th-Century Music, Band 33) - Couverture rigide

Gleason, Scott

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ISBN 10 : 0520397339 ISBN 13 : 9780520397330

Editeur : University of California Press, 2026

Synopsis

Composing Modernism is the first book-length study to tell the fascinating story of a key strain of American composition during the Cold War. The Princeton School set aspirations for postwar music composition and discourse. Milton Babbitt especially sought a scientific conception of the composing researcher. Around 1967, J. K. Randall began challenging the School's tenets of twelve-tone composition, music-theoretical axiomatization, and electronic synthesis. Randall, Elaine Barkin, and Benjamin Boretz embraced Cagean experimentalism and turned to phenomenology, improvisation, and new forms of community making. This book explores these contrasting paradigms of the musical avant-garde, with a focus on the people, subjects, and aesthetic and formal aspects of a major force in Cold War music. By uncovering many of the ideologies of the Princeton School, Scott Gleason highlights the utopian thought that was central across several generations of Princeton composer-theorists.

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À propos de l'auteur

Scott Gleason is Acquisitions Editor for Grove Music Online at Oxford University Press and an editor for the OPEN SPACE magazine and Perspectives of New Music.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520397339
• ISBN 13: 9780520397330
• Reliure: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Nombre de pages: 314
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Libri GmbH; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; Hessen; Allemagne