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Music, the arts, and ideas : patterns and predictions in twentieth-century culture

1994

Format:	Book
Author:	Meyer, Leonard B., author.
Title:	Music, the arts, and ideas : patterns and predictions in twentieth-century culture / by Leonard B. Meyer ; with a new postlude.
Publisher, Date:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [1994] ©1994
Description:	xi, 376 pages : music ; 23 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.
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.
Web Site:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	93045855
ISBN:	0226521435 9780226521435
Other Number:	29549458
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Call Number:	780.904 Meyer

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