Contemporary music: theoretical and philosophical perspectives

This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries.

Edited by Max Paddison and Ir?ne Deli?ge, the book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers and composers, including C?lestin Deli?ge, Pascal Decroupet, Richard Toop, Rudolf Frisius, Alastair Williams, Herman Sabbe, Fran?ois Nicolas, Marc Jimenez, Anne Boissi?re, Max Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Jonathan Harvey, and new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm.