Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture

by Leonard B. Meyer

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.

Genres: Music, Art

349 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[John Jr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite thought-provoking when I read it, which was years ago, and probably still is. Might look for it in a library and flip through it as a reminder. This is where I learned, among other things, about stochastic processes. “Stochastic” is sometimes used as though it were synonymous with “random,” but it isn’t exactly, and Meyer, as I recall, uses the concept in analyzing music, which is both patterned and unpredictable.

[David Bruyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Above my musical pay grade.

[Leonardo]

Discutido en GEB.