Music, the arts, and ideas : patterns and predictions in twentieth-century culture
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Music, the arts, and ideas : patterns and predictions in twentieth-century culture
University of Chicago Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-362) and index
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Description
Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967.
Table of Contents
1: Meaning in Music and Information Theory 2: Some Remarks on Value and Greatness in Music 3: On Rehearing Music 4: Forgery and the Anthropology of Art 5: The End of the Renaissance? 6: History, Stasis, and Change 7: Varieties of Style Change 8: The Probability of Stasis 9: The Aesthetics of Stability 10: The Arguments for Experimental Music 11: The Perception and Cognition of Complex Music 12: Functionalism and Structure Postlude Bibliography Index
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