Stockhausen on Music (Pocket)
avKarlheinz Stockhausen, Robin MacOnie, Karlheinz Stockhausen
ISBN: 9780714529189 - UTGIVEN: 199101If a genius is someone whose ideas survive all attempts at explanation', writes the well-known contemporary musicologist Robin Maconie, 'then by that definition Stockhausen is the nearest thing to Beethoven this century has produced. Reason? His music lasts.
With penetrating philosophical and sp[...]
Avant Garde (Inbunden)
avRobin MacOnie
ISBN: 9780810883123 - UTGIVEN: 2012-03Gertrude Stein and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead were unlikely friends who spent most of their mature lives in exile: Stein in France and Whitehead in the United States. Their friendship was based on a mutual admiration for the philosophical pragmatism of William James and skepticism toward the[...]
Experiencing Stravinsky (Inbunden)
avRobin Maconie
ISBN: 9780810884304 - UTGIVEN: 201302Hear the name "Igor Stravinsky" and the first thing that comes to mind is a composer of ponderous, "serious" music. But did you know that Stravinsky lived much of his life in Hollywood? That he collaborated on musical projects with Pablo Picasso and George Balanchine? That his work subtly espoused d[...]
Other Planets (Häftad)
avRobin J. Maconie
ISBN: 9780810853560 - UTGIVEN: 200502The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde, and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instru[...]
