New Music and the Claims of Modernity
- Author: Williams, Alastair
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Contents
- Contents: Introductions
- Part One Modernity: Critical Theory and Aesthetic Modernity: Modernity
- Dialectic of Enlightenment and the Culture Industry
- Truth as Negation: Negative Dialectics and Aesthetic Theory
- Second Generation Critical Theory
- Alienated Music: Beethoven to Schoenberg: The Beethoven Critique and Nineteenth-Century Music
- Dialectic of Modernity: Schoenberg and Stravinsky
- Part Two High Modernism and After: Construction and Indeterminacy: Boulez and Cage
- High Modernism
- Boulez's Third Piano Sonata
- Cage
- Modernism Inside Out
- Music and Deconstruction
- Illusion and Space: Ligeti
- Part III Consequences of Modernism: Separate Ways
- A Dialectical Circus on Roaratorio
- The Persistence of Modernism: Repons
- Discourses of Modernity
- Aesthetics Reclaimed
- Postmodernism
- Engaging Tradition
- Wolfgang Rihm
- In Search of Subjectivity
- Bibliography
- Name and title Index
- Subject Index.