New Music at Darmstadt

Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-03329-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 790 g

Reihe: Music Since 1900

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 explores 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 Carl Dahlhaus opined 'swept across the European avant-garde like a natural disaster'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iddon, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: music after catastrophe; Part I. The Accidental Serialists: 1. Arrivals; 2. Schools, excursus: October 1954, Donaueschingen and Cologne; Part II. A Stranger in Paradise?: 3. Pre-cursors; 4. The Cage shock; 5. In Cage's wake; Conclusion: a stranger in paradise?; Chronology of major events at Darmstadt, 1946–61.

Über Autor(innen)

Iddon, Martin
Martin Iddon is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. He previously lectured at University College Cork and Lancaster University, and studied composition and musicology at the Universities of Durham and Cambridge. His musicological research largely focuses on post-war music in Germany and the United States of America, and has been published in numerous leading journals, including Musical Quarterly, twentieth-century music and the Contemporary Music Review. His music has been performed in Europe, North America and Australasia, and has been featured on BBC Radio 3, Radio New Zealand and the Österreichischer Rundfunk.