The New Music
Kranichstein Lectures
Theodor W. Adorno, Klaus Reichert, Michael Michael, Wieland Hoban
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The New Music
Kranichstein Lectures
Theodor W. Adorno, Klaus Reichert, Michael Michael, Wieland Hoban
About This Book
A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to familiarize young composers and musicians with the music that, only a few years earlier, had been denounced as degenerate by the Nazi regime, and it soon developed into one of the most important events in contemporary music.
Having returned to Germany in 1949 from exile in the United States, Adorno was a regular participant at Darmstadt from 1950 on. In 1955 he gave a series of lectures on the young Schoenberg, using the latter's work to illustrate the relation between tradition and the avant-garde. Adorno's three double-length lectures on the young Schoenberg, in which he spoke as a passionate advocate for the composer whom Boulez had declared dead, were his first at Darmstadt to be recorded on tape. The relation between tradition and the avant-garde was the leitmotif of the lectures that followed, which continued over the next decade. Adorno also dealt in detail with problems of composition in contemporary music, and he often accompanied his lectures with off-the-cuff musical improvisations. The five lecture courses he gave at Darmstadt between 1955 and 1966 were all recorded and subsequently transcribed, and they are published here for the first time in English.
This volume is a unique document on the theory and history of the New Music. It will be of great value to anyone interested in the work of Adorno and critical theory, in German intellectual and cultural history, and in the history of modern music.
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- adagio movements 129
- Schoenberg and 30ā2
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- at Darmstadt 233ā4, 403ā13
- discussion with Doflein 181ā7, 202
- dispute about composition 405ā7
- on Hindemith 183ā7
- not invited to Darmstadt 409ā10
- āReaction and Progressā debate 240
- traditional and new music 84
- works of
- āThe Aging of New Musicā 4, 49ā52, 156ā7, 196, 199, 203ā4, 206, 406, 409
- āCohesion and Senseā 409
- āConstruction and Colourā 412
- āCriteria of New Musicā 404, 409
- Dialectics of Enlightenment (with Horkheimer) 52, 156
- The Faithful RƩpƩtiteur 293
- āForm in New Musicā 409
- āThe Function of Colour in Musicā 411, 412
- āThe Function of Counterpoint in New Musicā 408
- āMusic, Technology and Societyā lecture 406
- notes and recordings of 411ā12
- āNotes for the 1954 Darmstadt Seminarā 407
- Philosophy of New Music 50ā2, 83, 167, 241, 265ā6, 270...