Towards an aesthetics of the '(in)formel' : time, space and the dialectical image in the music of Varèse, Feldman and Xenakis

This thesis addresses the issue of the modernist musical artwork, specifically in terms of the spatialization of musical time, in aesthetic and music-analytic terms. Firstly, it focuses on the notion of musique informelle as it was expounded in Adorno’s essay ‘Vers une musique informelle,’ (1961) an...

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Main Author: De-Henau, Joris Andre Odiel
Published: Durham University 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676070