Claus-SteffenManhkopf’s Second Modernity in Context
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Marcus Zagorski
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Postwar Musical Modernism in East and West
This essay outlines the role of modernist musical techniques in the postwar period and, more specifically, considers their function as a symbol for cultural opposition in communist countries. It defines a particularly influential technique in modernist music, examines several reasons why this technique was appealing to postwar composers, and compares the practice of this music in East and West.
On Musical Material: Serialism and “Materialdenken”
Writings about the material of music have been a part of European music theory for nearly 2000 years, but they were especially prominent in theoretical writings that accompanied the serial music of the 1950s and 60s. In their efforts to dismantle traditional compositional techniques and build a new music from the most basic elements, many postwar composers and theorists seized upon the concept of musical material and invested it with the intellectual concerns of their time. Theories of musical material are, therefore, both essential to an philosophical content. The value of such theories can be found in what they tell us about the period and what they impel us to ask further.