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Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture 0002- Edition
Author(s): Leonard B. Meyer (Author)
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: September 1, 1994
- Edition: 0002-
- Language: English
- Print length: 349 pages
- ISBN-10: 0226521435
- ISBN-13: 9780226521435
Book Description
Meyer makes a valuable statement on aesthetics, criteria for assessing great works of music, compositional practices and theories of the present day, and predictions of the future of Western culture. His postlude, written for the book’s twenty-fifth anniversary, looks back at his thoughts on the direction of music in 1967.
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From the Back Cover
‘In Music, the Arts, and Ideas, ‘ Leonard B. Meyer uses music as a vantage point to discover patters in the perplexing, fragmented world of twentieth-century culture. The book is concerned with the aesthetics of music and with the relationships between music (and the other arts), ideology, and history–especially as these have shaped contemporary culture. The Postlude, written for this edition, looks back at the predictions made more than twenty-five years ago and speculates about what the coming decades may hold.
About the Author
Leonard B. Meyer is Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.
