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

Meyer, Leonard B.,

Music, the arts, and ideas : patterns and predictions in twentieth-century culture / by Leonard B. Meyer ; with a new postlude. - xi, 376 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.

Meaning in Music and Information Theory -- Some Remarks on Value and Greatness in Music -- On Rehearing Music -- Forgery and the Anthropology of Art -- The End of the Renaissance? -- History, Stasis, and Change -- Varieties of Style Change -- The Probability of Stasis -- The Aesthetics of Stability -- The Arguments for Experimental Music -- The Perception and Cognition of Complex Music -- Functionalism and Structure -- Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

0226521435 9780226521435

93045855


Music--Philosophy and aesthetics
Music--History and criticism--20th century

ML3800. / M633 1994

780.904

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