Boulez, Music and Philosophy
Part of Music in the Twentieth Century
- Author: Edward Campbell, University of Aberdeen
- Date Published: March 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107687233
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While acknowledging that Pierre Boulez is not a philosopher, and that he is wary of the potential misuse of philosophy with regard to music, this study investigates a series of philosophically charged terms and concepts which he uses in discussion of his music. Campbell examines significant encounters which link Boulez to the work of a number of important philosophers and thinkers, including Adorno, Lévi-Strauss, Eco and Deleuze. Relating Boulez's music and ideas to broader currents of thought, the book illuminates a number of affinities linking music and philosophy, and also literature and visual art. These connections facilitate enhanced understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez's distinctive approach to composition. Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished documentary sources and providing musical analysis of a number of key scores, the book traces the changing musical, philosophical and intellectual currents which inform Boulez's work.
Read more- Maps out Boulez's engagement with a range of philosophical ideas allowing readers to trace the changing musical, philosophical and intellectual currents of thought which inform Boulez's work
- Draws on a wide range of French and German language sources, including Boulez's previously unpublished correspondence with a number of significant figures
- Connects Boulez's music and ideas to broader currents of thought, enhancing understanding of post-war modernist music and Boulez's distinctive approach to composition
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- Date Published: March 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107687233
- length: 298 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- contains: 44 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Preparing the ground
2. Early influences and movements
3. Dialectic, negation and binary oppositions
4. Boulez, Adorno and serial critique
5. Deduction and the scientific model
6. Serialism and structuralism
7. Post-structuralist encounters
8. Boulez, difference and repetition
9. Expanding the virtual
10. Continuity and discontinuity of space and time
Conclusion
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