Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Music in the Twentieth Century, Series Number 26) - Softcover

Metzer, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107402808 ISBN 13: 9781107402805

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Providing an interesting approach to developments in modernist music - from 1980 onwards - this study also presents an intriguing perspective on the larger history of modernism. Far from being supplanted by a postmodern period, argues David Metzer, modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary scene. The vitality comes from the ways in which those idioms have extended impulses of modernist styles from the early twentieth century. Since that time, works have participated in lines of inquiry into various compositional and aesthetic topics, particularly the explorations of how to build pieces around such aesthetic ideals as purity and silence and how to deliver and manipulate expressive utterances. Metzer shows how these inquiries have played crucial roles in defining directions taken since 1980, and how, through the inquiries, we can gain a clearer idea of what makes the decades after 1980 a distinct period in the history of modernism.

About this title

Book Description:

In this book, David Metzer provides intriguing perspectives on both developments in music from 1980 onwards and the larger history of modernism, showing how modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary scene. The study investigates what makes the decades after 1980 a distinct period in the history of modernism.

About the Author:

David Metzer is a Professor in the School of Music, University of British Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1107402808
• ISBN 13: 9781107402805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266