Night music : essays on music 1928-1962 /
"Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by Adorno - Moments musica...
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London ; New York :
Seagull Books,
2009.
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| Item Description: | "The first complete English translations of two collections of texts compiled by Adorno -- Moments musicaux...and Theory of New Music"--Jacket. |
Table of Contents:
- Moments musicaux. Foreword ; Beethoven's last style ; Schubert ; Homage to Zerlina ; The pictorial world of Der Freischutz ; The tales of Hoffmann in Offenbach's motives ; On the score of Parsifal ; Night music ; Ravel ; New tempi ; On jazz ; Physignomy of Krenek ; Mahagonny ; Zillig's Verlaine songs ; Reaction and progress ; Schönberg's Wind quintet ; Alienated magnum opus : The Missa solemnis
- Theory of new music. Nineteen encyclopedia articles on new music ; Atonal intermezzo? ; Against the new tonality ; Excursuses on an excursus ; Why twelve-note music? ; The development and forms of new music ; New music today ; On the state of composition in Germany ; On the relationship between painting and music today ; On the current relationship between philosophy and music.