Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics(English, Paperback, unknown)

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Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics(English, Paperback, unknown) is written by unknown and published by WW Norton & Co. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393965082 (ISBN 10) and 9780393965087 (ISBN 13).

Drawn from the influential journal Perspectives of New Music, these essays reflect a variety of artistic viewpoints and critical perspectives. The contributors include composers Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Milton Babbitt, literary scholar Douglas Collins, anthropologist Eric Gans, philosopher Michel Foucault, and poet Delmore Schwartz. The authors contemplate music's origins and function, the changing relations between music and society, the effects of today's conflicting aesthetic notions on composition, and the relationship between music and other communicative behaviors. Taken together, the essays suggest a working aesthetic that would ensure the continual renewal of artistic tradition in Western culture.