|
|
Article: Eighteenth-Century Music.(Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity)(Book review)
- Article from:
- Notes
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2009 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity. By Karol Berger. (Simpson Imprint in Humanities.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. [xi, 420 p. ISBN-13: 9780520250918. $39.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliographical references, index.
Time in music is often a slippery and difficult subject to master, particularly since it seems not to be perceived as a smoothly flowing, continuous stream. Modern music, of course, diffuses the conventions of time; for instance, aleatory, while sometimes taking place within a strict framework bounded by precise measurements, allows for a more random effect within it, so that sound ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: EUROPEAN MUSIC 1520-1640
The American Organist;
April 1, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... What overarching theoretical, social, political, and philosophical themes attach themselves to the music (lain Fenlon, Karol Berger, Robin Leaver, Craig Monson)? The arguments that surface from these investigations are as wide-ranging and divergent ...
|
|