After the Avant-Gardes

violates certain principles of communicability, coherence, order, and the experiential goals of pleasure and affect, that is, if ...

have said in this paper should lead the reader to think that I endorse any sort of censorship in the arts; to denounce certain t ...

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Why Popper? There is never a shortage of critics of the avant-garde, almost by defini- tion. However, most theoretical or hist ...

The philosopher Karl Popper offers a contrasting perspective. He was interested in music from the point of view of a critic of t ...

This was an organization that Schoenberg had established in 1918 to promote performances of new music at a time when Viennese cu ...

being a composer in the early twentieth century. For him, the last unequivocally great composer was Schubert, though he had a li ...

those who heard him, and had be been more widely heard (perhaps if he had lived longer) he would have been more widely appreciat ...

framework, the order, the regularity that made possible inventive freedom without chaos. (Unended Quest, 58) Out of this he draw ...

rational world. This idea is nonsense and impossible to realize. If you con- struct a rational world afresh there is no reason t ...

his writings, at least Schoenberg’s own attitude to music seems alto- gether Popperian. He decries innovation for its own sake, ...

progress as in the refinement of musical instruments. But he argues that this is different from the type of progress which he id ...

social conditions, or changing conditions within the art—suggest such a mechanism of historical change. To some extent Popper co ...

originality than musical problem solving. A musical problem is “How do I develop this material well?” not “How do I develop it i ...

dogma that could inform the direction composers take. In neither of these two cases is the composer significantly freer than the ...

In what way might the new classicism gain support from evolutionary theory? My rough answer is that evolutionary theory can help ...

110 Ray Scott Percival elitism in the arts or varied tastes (even between the sexes), and that, although classical standards are ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 111 an aesthetic, then an intellectual adventure, in self-criticism. As Clemen ...