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Begbie on the Paradoxical Relation Between Boulez’s Total Serialism and Cage’s Chance Music
4 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen July 4th, 2006 in Jeremy Begbie, MusicComparing and contrasting two leading twentieth century composers, Pierre Boulez and John Cage, the former a strict adherent and promoter of “total serialism” (a compositional method that organizes music according to mathematical patterns) and the latter the champion of chance music, where just about anything turns out to be music, Jeremy Begbie makes the following [...]


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