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More From Begbie on Boulez and Cage: Opposites Converging in Modernist Assumptions
4 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen July 14th, 2006 in Jeremy Begbie, Modernity Related Themes, MusicHaving discussed Boulez’s tendencies to control to the point of creating a perceptual sense of disorder (recall that Boulez is a promoter of “total serialism,” a compositional method that organizes music according to mathematical patterns), Begbie then turns to Cage, who at first seems to offer a more promising way. Cage, of course, with his [...]
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