9781107402805-1107402808-Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Music in the Twentieth Century, Series Number 26)

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

ISBN-13: 9781107402805
ISBN-10: 1107402808
Edition: Reissue
Author: David Metzer
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 266 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781107402805
ISBN-10: 1107402808
Edition: Reissue
Author: David Metzer
Publication date: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 266 pages

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Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Music in the Twentieth Century, Series Number 26) (ISBN-13: 9781107402805 and ISBN-10: 1107402808), written by authors David Metzer, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Criticism (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Music in the Twentieth Century, Series Number 26) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

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