
Critical Composition Today
Claus S. Mahnkopf(Editor)
Wolke Verlag
1st Edition
Published in August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-3-936000-16-0 (ISBN)
Description
Critical composition is generally associated with compositional approaches sharing a fundamental left-leaning political stance in relation to their own position in society that can lead to a decided political commitment, and is carried by the conviction that the treatment of musical material must be »critically« oriented. These positions have meanwhile gained astounding recognition, which must now - in the face of the rapid societal changes since the late 1980s and also the »competing venture« of post-modernity, which seemingly denies the younger and middle generations access to a critical form of composition - be problematized.
In order to render the transition from a First to a Second Modernity comprehensible, essays have been requested from composers, musicologists, philosophers and sociologists. The contributors to the present volume are the following: Frank Cox, Gordon Downie, Ernst Helmuth Flammer, Harry Lehmann, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Günter Mayer, Dieter Mersch, Rainer Nonnenmann, Nicola Sani, Gerhard Stäbler, and Ferdinand Zehentreiter.
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Edition
1., Ed.
Language
English
Illustrations
Notenbeisp.
Dimensions
Height: 23.2 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-936000-16-0 (9783936000160)
Schweitzer Classification