Herbert Eimert and the Darmstadt School: The Consolidation of the Avant-Garde (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108799713)

After 1951, the discourse surrounding both the Darmstadt courses in particular and European New Music more broadly shifted away from a dodecaphonic vocabulary in favour of concepts such as 'punctual music', 'post-Webern music', and 'static music', all collected under the newly-christened unity of the Darmstadt School. This study proposes a genealogy of the Darmstadt School through the institutional influence and writings of Herbert Eimert. It demonstrates that Eimert's understanding of music history - whereby technical procedures are universalised as the acme of historical progress - was adopted as the institutional discourse of New Music in Europe, and remains central to both textbook and critical scholarly accounts which attempt to make sense of the avant-garde after World War II.

Author: Max Erwin
ISBN-10: 110879971X
ISBN-13: 9781108799713
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2020
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d