Musical Idea and the Design Aesthetic in Contemporary Music a Text for Discerning Appraisal of Musical Thought in Western Culture (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music)
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Proposing a reaffirmation, for musical composition, of imaginative figurational invention as idea within expressive harmonic syntax, this text challenges the tendency in 20th-century music toward systematization and process affording only textural values.