Book Description
Theodor Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. The essays on music in this book display an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical. Adorno's insistence on the social character of aesthetic works will come as no surprise, but many may be surprised by the volume's somewhat colloquial tone, which stems from the occasional sources of many of the essays, mainly public lectures and radio addresses. The volume includes essays on prominent figures in music (Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Arturo Toscanini), compositional technique, and larger questions of musical sociology, including the relation of interpretation to audience, the ideological function of opera, and the historical meaning of musical technique. Some 40 years after most of these essays were written, they remain surprisingly relevant, and are more accessible than Adorno's more formal writing.
Library of Congress
Theodor Adorno is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the areas of social theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and music. Throughout the essays in this book, all of which concern musical matters, he displays an astonishing range of cultural reference, demonstrating that music is invariably social, political, even ethical. This volume includes essays on prominent figures in music (Alban Berg, Anton von Webern, Arturo Toscanini), compositional technique (the prehistory of the twelve-tone row, the function of counterpoint in new music), and the larger questions of musical sociology for which Adorno is most famous, including the relation of interpretation to audience, the ideological function of opera, and the historical meaning of musical technique.
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