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

by Leonard B. Meyer

'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.

Genres: Music, Art

342 pages, Hardcover

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.