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Author Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969, author.

Title Philosophy of modern music / Theodor W. Adorno ; translated by Anne G. Mitchell and Wesley V. Blomster
Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016
©2007

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Description 1 online resource
Series Bloomsbury revelations series
Bloomsbury revelations.
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Translators' Introduction -- Preface -- Introduction -- Choice of subject matter -- New conformism -- False musical consciousness -- 'Intellectualism' -- Modern music unprotected -- The antinomy of modern music -- Growing indifferentism -- On method -- Schoenberg and Progress -- Disturbance of the work -- Inherent tendency of musical material -- Schoenberg's criticism of illusion and play -- Dialectics of loneliness -- Loneliness as style -- Expressionism as objectivity -- Total organization of the elements of music -- Total development
The concept of twelve-tone technique -- Musical domination of nature -- Loss of freedom -- Twelve-tone melos and rhythm -- Differentiation and coarsening -- Harmony -- Instrumental timbre -- Twelve-tone counterpoint -- Function of counterpoint -- Form -- The composers -- Avant-garde and theory -- The renunciation of material -- Cognitive character -- Attitude towards society -- Stravinsky and Restoration -- Authenticity -- Sacrifice and the absence of intention -- The hand organ as a primeval phenomenon -- Sacre and African sculpture -- Technical elements in Sacre -- 'Rhythm'
Identification with the collective -- Archaism, modernism, infantilism -- Permanent regression and musical form -- The psychotic aspect -- Ritual -- Alienation as objectivity -- Fetishism of the means -- Depersonalization -- Hebephrenia -- Catatonia -- Music about music -- Denaturation and simplification -- Dissociation of time -- Music -- a pseudomorphism of painting -- Theory of ballet music -- Modes of listening -- The deception of objectivism -- The final trick -- Neoclassicism -- Experiments in expansion -- Schoenberg and Stravinsky -- Note to the third edition -- Notes
Translators' Introduction -- Preface -- Introduction -- Schoenberg and Progress -- Stravinsky and Restoration -- Index
Subject Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951. fast (OCoLC)fst00051867
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. fast (OCoLC)fst00038169
Subject Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Mitchell, Anne G., translator
Blomster, Wesley V., translator
ISBN 9781350225206
1350225207
Other Titles Philosophie der neuen Musik. English