Search Results for: The Pleasure Of Modernist Music

The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Berg's Wozzeck and Webern's Symphony Op.21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical cont

Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually co

Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological domi

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

This collection of essays offers a historical reappraisal of what musical modernism was, and what its potential for the present and future could be. It thus mov