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The Aesthetics of Survival
A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music

George Rochberg
Revised and Expanded Edition

Winner: 2006 The American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor Award

A revised paperback edition of composer George Rochberg's landmark essays

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About the Book

As a composer, George Rochberg has played a leading role in bringing about a transformation of contemporary music through a reassessment of its relation to tonality, melody, and harmony. In The Aesthetics of Survival, the author addresses the legacy of modernism in music and its related effect on the cultural milieu, particularly its overemphasis on the abstract, rationalist thinking embraced by contemporary science, technology, and philosophy. Rochberg argues for the renewal of holistic values in order to ensure the survival of music as a humanly expressive art.

A renowned composer, thinker, and teacher, George Rochberg has been honored with innumerable awards, including, most recently, an Alfred I. du Pont Award for Outstanding Conductors and Composers, and an André and Clara Mertens Contemporary Composer Award. He lives in Pennsylvania.