Adorno's Aesthetics of Music

by Max Paddison

• ISBN13: 9780521626088
• ISBN10: 0521626080
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This introduction to the aesthetics and sociology of music of the German philosopher and music theorist T. W. Adorno is the only book to deal comprehensively with this topic and it has quickly established itself as a classic text.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
1 Adorno in context	3	(10)
2 Reading Adorno	13	(3)
3 Considerations on method	16	(5)
1 Constellations: towards a critical method	21	(44)
1 The writings on music: a thematic outline	22	(7)
2 History, nature, second nature: the debates with Lukacs and Benjamin	29	(8)
3 The problem of form: Bartok, Hindemith, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School	37	(15)
4 Towards a critical method: levels of interpretation	52	(13)
2 The development of a theory of musical material	65	(43)
1 Theories of artistic material: precursors and contemporaries	66	(15)
2 The Adorno-Krenek debate	81	(16)
3 On the social situation of music	97	(11)
3 The problem of mediation	108	(41)
1 Hegel: mediation and the dialectic	109	(12)
2 Adorno's Marxian model: the social mediation of music	121	(7)
3 Freud: art and sublimation	128	(7)
4 Max Weber adapted; rationality and mimesis	135	(14)
4 A material theory of form	149	(35)
1 The immanent dialectic of musical material	149	(9)
2 Immanent analysis: Berg, Sonata op. 1	158	(10)
3 Adorno's interpretation of Berg: critique and commentary	168	(6)
4 Proposals for a material theory of musical form	174	(10)
5 Social content and social function	184	(34)
1 The social dialectic of musical material	185	(2)
2 Musical production	187	(5)
3 Musical reproduction (I): performance	192	(6)
4 Musical reproduction (II): distribution	198	(9)
5 Musical consumption	207	(11)
6 The historical dialectic of musical material	218	(45)
1 Adorno's philosophy of music history	219	(6)
2 Bach and the style galant	225	(8)
3 Beethoven and Berlioz	233	(9)
4 Wagner and Brahms	242	(14)
5 Debussy and Mahler	256	(7)
7 The disintegration of musical material	263	(16)
1 Issues in the philosophy of New Music	265	(6)
2 The decline of the modern	271	(5)
3 Concluding remarks	276	(3)
Appendix	279	(6)
Notes	285	(45)
Bibliography	330	(35)
Index of names	365	(3)
Subject index	368