Philosophy of Modern Music
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Philosophy of Modern Music
By (Author) Theodor W. Adorno
Translated by Anne G. Mitchell
Translated by Wesley V. Blomster
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
1st February 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Musicians, singers, bands and groups
Composers and songwriters
780.1
Physical Properties
Paperback
210
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
228g
Description
In this classic work, Adorno revolutionized music theory through an analysis of two composers he saw as polar opposites, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Philosophy of Modern Music presents a profound study of key musical works of the twentieth century. But it is more than this because, as always with Adorno, a wide range of social and cultural questions are brought to bear on the analysis. In many ways, Philosophy of Modern Music is a product of Adorno's exile in the United States, where he wrote the book while National Socialism fell apart in his European homeland.
Reviews
"[Adorno's] interest in Schoenberg and Benjamin was combined in his best known and most influential book...which set out to do for contemporary music what Benjamin had done for seventeenth-century German tragedy."--The New York Review of Books
Author Bio
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) wasa founder and arguably theforemost thinker of theFrankfurt School. He worked with Max Horkheimer at the New York Institute for Social Research and later taught at the University of Frankfurt until his death in 1969. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory.
