Herbert Eimert and the Darmstadt School

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-79971-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 75 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 104 g

Reihe: Elements in Music since 1945

After 1951, the discourse surrounding both the Darmstadt courses in particular and European New Music more broadly shifted away from a dodecaphonic vocabulary in favour of concepts such as 'punctual music', 'post-Webern music', and 'static music', all collected under the newly-christened unity of the Darmstadt School. This study proposes a genealogy of the Darmstadt School through the institutional influence and writings of Herbert Eimert. It demonstrates that Eimert's understanding of music history - whereby technical procedures are universalised as the acme of historical progress - was adopted as the institutional discourse of New Music in Europe, and remains central to both textbook and critical scholarly accounts which attempt to make sense of the avant-garde after World War II.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erwin, Max

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. After Dodecaphony: Darmstadt 1951; 3. Darmstadt, 1952; 4. Stability and its Consequences; 5. Conclusion; References.

Über Autor(innen)

Erwin, Max
Max Erwin is a musicologist and composer. His research is primarily focused on the European avant-garde. His writing has been published in Tempo, Music & Literature, and Revue belge de Musicologie, among others.