Serial Music, Serial Aesthetics

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Note on the text
• Introduction
• Part I :
• 1. European culture in the post-war years
• 2. The isolated tone: electronic and serial music, 1945-1954
• Part II :
• 3. Electronic music - 'chaos or order'?
• 4. Webern and Debussy
• Part III :
• 5. Serial music as an aleatoric process
• 6. 'Das Serielle'
• Part IV :
• 7. Music and language
• 8. Serial theory, serial practice - wherefore, and why?
• Part V: Conclusion: Dorthin?
• Bibliography
• Index.