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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: xi, 376 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226521435
  • 9780226521435
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 780.904
LOC classification:
  • ML3800. M633 1994
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 -- Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.

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 -- Postlude -- Bibliography -- Index.

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