Beauty in Music

Table of Contents


Introduction


Part I. Towards modernity


1. In the shadow of Wagner and Nietzsche


2. The ideas of pantheism, theosophy and futurism and their resonance in the art of musical composition


3. Interest in non-European and old pagan cultures


4. The controversial idea of national music


Part II. The height of modernity


5. The dispute over the aesthetics of modern music


6. The dispute over 'unity in variety' in the art of composition and the notion of progress


7. Avant-garde ideas of serialism, aleatorism and sonorism


8. The Cold War in musical culture, the yearning for beauty and the joy of making music


Part III. In the fetters of late modernity


9. The decline of the idea of progress and the search for new creative ideas


10. Liberation from the pressure of the avant-garde: postmodern games with tradition, the 'musical ark' and the biblical world in music


11. 'Eternal' classicism and existential dilemmas in music


Select bibliography


List of examples


Index

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• Música: estilos e gêneros
• História: eventos específicos e tópicos
• Teoria da música e musicologia

aesthetics; Alicja; avant-garde; Beauty; beauty; Comber; Conflicting; Controversy; dodecaphonic and serial music; eternal classicism; Golab; history of music; Jarzebska; jazz; John; Maciej; Modern; modernism; Music; national music; philosophy of art; postmodernism; rock culture; sonorism; sung poetry; the Bible in music; the ideology of progress in art; Views