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New Music at Darmstadt: Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title New Music at Darmstadt: Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Martin Iddon
SeriesMusic since 1900
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:354
Dimensions(mm): Height 244,Width 170
Category/GenreMusic - styles and genres
20th century and contemporary classical music
ISBN/Barcode 9781107480018
ClassificationsDewey:781.680904
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 16 Printed music items; 11 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 1 January 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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'.

Author Biography

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 OEsterreichischer Rundfunk.