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Herbert Eimert and the Darmstadt School

Herbert Eimert and the Darmstadt School

Herbert Eimert and the Darmstadt School

The Consolidation of the Avant-Garde
Max Erwin, University of Leeds
December 2020
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    After 1951, the discourse surrounding both the Darmstadt courses in particular and European New Music more broadly shifted away from a dodecaphonic vocabulary in favour of concepts such as 'punctual music', 'post-Webern music', and 'static music', all collected under the newly-christened unity of the Darmstadt School. This study proposes a genealogy of the Darmstadt School through the institutional influence and writings of Herbert Eimert. It demonstrates that Eimert's understanding of music history - whereby technical procedures are universalised as the acme of historical progress - was adopted as the institutional discourse of New Music in Europe, and remains central to both textbook and critical scholarly accounts which attempt to make sense of the avant-garde after World War II.

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    December 2020
    Paperback
    9781108799713
    75 pages
    150 × 230 × 5 mm
    0.12kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. After Dodecaphony: Darmstadt 1951
    • 3. Darmstadt, 1952
    • 4. Stability and its Consequences
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References.
      Author
    • Max Erwin , University of Leeds

      Max Erwin is a musicologist and composer. His research is primarily focused on the European avant-garde. His writing has been published in Tempo, Music & Literature, and Revue belge de Musicologie, among others.