Contemporary Music: Theoretical and Philosophical Perspectives
- Editor: Deliege, Irene
- Editor: Paddison, Max
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Contents
- Contents: Preface, Irene Deliege and Max Paddison
- Introduction: contemporary music: theory, aesthetics, critical theory, Max Paddison
- Part I Theoretical Perspectives and Retrospectives: The principles of music and the rationalization of theory, Hugues Dufourt
- Atonal harmony: from set to scale, Celestin Deliege
- In search of lost harmony, Rudolf Frisius
- Against a theory of musical (new) complexity, Richard Toop
- Heterogeneity: or, on the choice of being omnivorous, Pascal Decroupet
- Varese, serialism and the acoustic metaphor, Pascal Decroupet
- 'I open and close?', Richard Toop
- A period of confrontation: the post-Webern years, Celestin Deliege. Part II Philosophical Critiques and Speculations after Adorno: A philosophy of totality, Herman Sabbe
- Possibilities for a work-immanent contemporary musical logic, FranA ois Nicolas
- Postmodernism and the survival of the avant-garde, Max Paddison
- Material constraints: Adorno, Benjamin, Arendt, Anne Boissiere
- Towards an aesthetics of risk, Marc Jimenez
- Music and social relations: towards a theory of mediation, Max Paddison. Part III Creative Orientations: Music, ambiguity, Buddhism: a composer's perspective, Jonathan Harvey
- Artistic orientations, aesthetic concepts, and the limits of explanation: an interview with Pierre Boulez, David Walters
- Failed time, successful time, Shadowtime: an interview with Brian Ferneyhough, Lois Fitch and John Hails
- Soundstructures, transformations and broken magic: an interview with Helmut Lachenmann, Abigail Heathcote
- Hunting and forms: an interview with Wolfgang Rihm, Richard McGregor
- Postlude: Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm and the Austro-German tradition, Alastair Williams
- Indexes.