New Ears for New Music 1st Edition by Constantin Floros ISBN 978-3631633793 3631633793

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ISBN 10: 3631633793

ISBN 13: 978-3631633793

Author: Constantin Floros 

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century’s intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist and author Constantin Floros provides a survey of the different styles and tendencies in new music, presenting the most important composers from Schoenberg to Rihm in a series of fluent and readable essays that will appeal to connoisseurs and non-specialists alike. For Floros, music and biography are inseparable, and here he puts music in the context of the social and psychological background of its time.

Table of contents: 

1. From Expressionism to Experiment – Directions and Tendencies in New Music

2. Arnold Schoenberg – Revolutionary, Humanist and Visionary

3. “Music is not to be Decorative; it is to be True” – Towards an Aesthetic of the Second Viennese School

4. The Problem of “German Music”

5. The Fate of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg after 1933

6. Two Unknown Letters by Schoenberg and Berg

7. Beethoven and the Schoenberg School

8. Principles of Vocal Composition

9. Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder

10. The Melodramas of Pierrot lunaire

11. “God’s Eternity Opposes the Transience of Idols” – On Schoenberg’s Moses and Aron

12. Nationalism and Folklorism

13. Nikos Skalkottas – A Schoenberg Pupil in Berlin

14. Beyond Schoenberg and Debussy – Nikos Skalkottas’s 32 Piano Pieces

15. A Conversation with Luigi Nono

16. Olivier Messiaen’s “Theological Music”

17. Pierre Boulez’s Masterpiece Le Marteau sans maître

1. Fascinated by the Music of Ligeti

2. Ligeti’s Hölderlin-Phantasien: A Letter from the Composer

3. Iridescent Sound

4. “Folklore in Serious Music is a Lie”: Ligeti’s Relationship with Béla Bartók

5. Multicultural Phenomena in the New Music

6. “A Music of the Whole Earth, All Countries and Races”: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Utopia of World Music

7. The Philosophy of Time and Pluralistic Thought of Bernd Alois Zimmermann

8. Alfred Schnittke and Polystylism

9. And Always for a Better World: Approaches to Hans Werner Henze

10. So-called Postmodernism

11. “No Artist Works at a Distance from Humanity”: In Praise of Wolfgang Rihm

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