Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393965087)

Drawn from the influential journal Perspectives of New Music, these essays reflect a variety of artistic viewpoints and critical perspectives. The contributors include composers Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Milton Babbitt, literary scholar Douglas Collins, anthropologist Eric Gans, philosopher Michel Foucault, and poet Delmore Schwartz. The authors contemplate music's origins and function, the changing relations between music and society, the effects of today's conflicting aesthetic notions on composition, and the relationship between music and other communicative behaviors. Taken together, the essays suggest a working aesthetic that would ensure the continual renewal of artistic tradition in Western culture.

Author: John Rahn
ISBN-10: 0393965082
ISBN-13: 9780393965087
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1995
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.97d