Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century CultureMeyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book's twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967. |
Contents
| 3 | |
| 5 | |
2 Some Remarks on Value and Greatness in Music | 22 |
3 On Rehearing Music | 42 |
4 Forgery and the Anthropology of Art | 54 |
5 The End of the Renaissance? | 68 |
PART II As It Is and Perhaps Will Be | 85 |
INTRODUCTION | 87 |
9 The Aesthetics of Stability | 170 |
Queries and Reservations | 233 |
INTRODUCTION | 235 |
10 The Arguments for Experimental Music | 245 |
11 The Perception and Cognition of Complex Music | 266 |
12 Functionalism and Structure | 294 |
Postlude | 317 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 351 |
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