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New music at Darmstadt : Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

Iddon, Martin, 1975-

2013

Overview

New Music at Darmstadt explores the rise and fall of the so-called 'Darmstadt School', through a wealth of primary sources and analytical commentary. Martin Iddon's book examines the creation of the Darmstadt New Music Courses and the slow development and subsequent collapse of the idea of the Darmstadt School, showing how participants in the West German new music scene, including Herbert Eimert and a range of journalistic commentators, created an image of a coherent entity, despite the very diverse range of compositional practices on display at the courses. The book also explored the collapse of the seeming collegiality of the Darmstadt composers, which crystallised around the arrival there in 1958 of the most famous, and notorious, of all post-war composers, John Cage, an event that, Carl Dahlhaus opined, 'swept across European avant-garde like a natural disaster'.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Nono, Luigi Criticism and interpretation. / Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007 Criticism and interpretation. / Cage, John Criticism and interpretation. / Boulez, Pierre, 1925- Criticism and interpretation. / Music Germany Darmstadt 20th century History and criticism.
• ISBN: 9781107033290, 1107033292

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML275.8.D35 I43 2013	1	BOOK	GENERAL