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The Cambridge Companion to Serialism

Part of Cambridge Companions to Music

Editor: Martin Iddon, University of Leeds

Catherine Nolans, Marcus Zagorski, Arnold Whittall, Jack Boss, Silvio Dos Santos, Sebastian Wedler, Andrew Mead, Catherine Losada, Imke Misch, Angela Ida de Benedictis, Veniero Rizzardi, Maureen Carr, Mark Delaere, Emily Abrams Ansari, Iwona Lindstedt, Peter J. Schmelz, Björn Heile, Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Peter O'Hagan, Charles Wilson, Jennifer Iverson

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Date Published: February 2023
availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108492522

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What is serialism? Defended by enthusiastic champions and decried by horrified detractors, serialism was central to twentieth-century art music, but riven, too, by inherent contradictions. The term can be a synonym for dodecaphony, Arnold Schoenberg's 'method of composing with twelve tones which are related only to one another'. It can be more expansive, describing ways of composing systematically with parameters beyond pitch - duration, dynamic, and more - and can even stand as a sort of antonym to dodecaphony: 'Schoenberg is Dead', as Pierre Boulez once insisted. Stretched to its limits, it can describe approaches where sound can be divided into discrete parameters and later recombined to generate the new, the unexpected, beginning to blur into a further antonym, post-serialism. This Companion introduces and embraces serialism in all its dimensions and contradictions, from Schoenberg and Stravinsky to Stockhausen and Babbitt, and explores its variants and legacies in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
- Embraces the contradictions of the term 'serialism', to present a multi-faceted view, rather than trying to promote a singular definition
- Considers serialism in multiple contexts, including transnational historical approaches, examinations of serialism in specific geographies, and focussed consideration of individual approaches
- Introduces a far wider range of approaches to serialism than has previously been available
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- Date Published: February 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108492522
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 251 x 172 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.97kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Contexts 1:
1. Theorising serialism Catherine Nolans
2. The aesthetics of serialism Marcus Zagorski
3. Serialism in history and criticism Arnold Whittall
Part II. Composers:
4. Arnold Schoenberg and the 'Musical Idea' Jack Boss
5. Alban Berg's eclectic serialism Silvio Dos Santos
6. Rethinking late Webern Sebastian Wedler
7. Milton Babbitt and 'Total' serialism Andrew Mead
8. Pierre Boulez and the redefinition of serialism Catherine Losada
9. The serial music of Karlheinz Stockhausen Imke Misch
10. Luigi Nono and the development of serial technique Angela Ida de Benedictis and Veniero Rizzardi
11. Stravinsky's path to serialism Maureen Carr
Part III. Geographies:
12. Serialism in western Europe Mark Delaere
13. Serialism in Canada and the United States Emily Abrams Ansari
14. Serialism in central and eastern Europe Iwona Lindstedt
15. Serialism in the USSR Peter J. Schmelz
16. Serialism in Latin America Björn Heile
17. Serialism in east Asia Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Part IV. Contexts II:
18. Towards an authentic interpretation of serial music Peter O'Hagan
19. Metamorphoses of the serial (and the 'Post-Serial Question') Charles Wilson
20. Technologies and the serial attitude Jennifer Iverson
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Martin Iddon, University of Leeds
Martin Iddon is Professor of Music and Aesthetics at the University of Leeds. He is a composer and musicologist, the author and editor of multiple volumes devoted to post-war music, including New Music at Darmstadt (2013), John Cage and David Tudor (2013), John Cage and Peter Yates (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and, with Philip Thomas, John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra (2020).
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Catherine Nolans, Marcus Zagorski, Arnold Whittall, Jack Boss, Silvio Dos Santos, Sebastian Wedler, Andrew Mead, Catherine Losada, Imke Misch, Angela Ida de Benedictis, Veniero Rizzardi, Maureen Carr, Mark Delaere, Emily Abrams Ansari, Iwona Lindstedt, Peter J. Schmelz, Björn Heile, Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Peter O'Hagan, Charles Wilson, Jennifer Iverson