John Rahn's prolific activities as a composer-theorist-teacher, inventor of computer sound-synthesis software, editor of Perspectives of New Music during the 1980s and 90s, and author of an exemplary text on atonal theory are conspicuously in the foreground of the academic music-intellectual world. This collection of essays charts Rahn's progression from the construal of music's data structures to the articulation of its experiential structures, leading to the question of its moral infrastructures and its value systems of the internal and external worlds. This book shows Rahn's remarkable intellectual evolution, culminating in the recognition that the pressure bearing on discourse can only be contained by thought formulated in the non-referential language of the arts themselves.
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John Rahn is professor of music composition and theory and associate director of the school of music at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Benjamin Boretz is a composer and an influential music the
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LEARNING TO BE A MUSICIAN ALWAYS involves learning to repeat sounds, or more precisely, to repeat in a new sound some quality or complex of qualities heard in some previous sound. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Perspectives of New Music, Benjamin Boretz, New York, Compose Yourself, Princeton University, Eric Gans, Michael Kassler, Thousand Plateaus, Beethoven's Eroica, David Lewin, Critical Inquiry, Harvard University Press, Language Lab, Roland Barthes, University of Chicago Press, August Stramm, College Music Symposium, Indiana University Press, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Basic Books, Clifford Geertz, Columbia University Press, Englewood Cliffs New!
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Perspectives of New Music, Benjamin Boretz, New York, Compose Yourself, Princeton University, Eric Gans, Michael Kassler, Thousand Plateaus, Beethoven's Eroica, David Lewin, Critical Inquiry, Harvard University Press, Language Lab, Roland Barthes, University of Chicago Press, August Stramm, College Music Symposium, Indiana University Press, Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Basic Books, Clifford Geertz, Columbia University Press, Englewood Cliffs New!
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