Music Inside Out: Going Too Far in Musical Essays (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) - Hardcover

Rahn, John; Boretz, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9057013320 ISBN 13: 9789057013324

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

John Rahn's prolific activities as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software, editor of Perspectives of New Music during the 1980s and 90s, and author of an exemplary text on atonal theory are conspicuously in the foreground of the academic music-intellectual world. This collection of essays charts Rahn's progression from the construal of music's data structures to the articulation of its experiential structures, leading to the question of its moral infrastructures and its value systems of the internal and external worlds. This book shows Rahn's remarkable intellectual evolution, culminating in the recognition that the pressure bearing on discourse can only be contained by thought formulated in the non-referential language of the arts themselves. Also includes 18 musical examples.

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About the Author

John Rahn is professor of music composition and theory and associate director of the school of music at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. BenjaminBoretz is a composer and an influential music the

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9057013320
• ISBN 13: 9789057013324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200