Excerpt from Problems of Modern Music: The Princeton Seminar in Advanced Musical Studies By way of introduction we may sketch in the background from which this mid-century stock-taking grew, and perhaps add a few comments of our own. The first half of the 2otb century passed under the sign of violent antitheses. First there was revolutionary dissolution, followed by severe, tradition-oriented concentration; emphatic subjectivity, then dogged objectivity and studied collectivism, The same extremes can be detected in the ...
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Excerpt from Problems of Modern Music: The Princeton Seminar in Advanced Musical Studies By way of introduction we may sketch in the background from which this mid-century stock-taking grew, and perhaps add a few comments of our own. The first half of the 2otb century passed under the sign of violent antitheses. First there was revolutionary dissolution, followed by severe, tradition-oriented concentration; emphatic subjectivity, then dogged objectivity and studied collectivism, The same extremes can be detected in the constituent features of music. Form became so fragmented that its dangling remnants could hardly be detected, but subsequently it solidified, triumphantly rediscovering age-old esthetic tenets and then petrified. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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