Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics

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Overview

A fascinating collection of essays on creating, performing, and thinking about music in today's world.

Drawn from the influential journal Perspectives of New Music, these essays reflect a variety of artistic viewpoints and critical perspectives. The contributors include composers Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Milton Babbitt, literary scholar Douglas Collins, anthropologist Eric Gans, philosopher Michel Foucault, and poet Delmore Schwartz. The authors contemplate music's origins and function, the changing relations between music and society, the effects of today's conflicting aesthetic notions on composition, and the relationship between music and other communicative behaviors. Taken together, the essays suggest a working aesthetic that would ensure the continual renewal of artistic tradition in Western culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393965087
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/17/1995
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Rahn is professor of music composition and theory at the University of Washington in Seattle, and since 1983 has been editor of Perspectives of New Music.