Identity and Difference
Description
This volume is a collection of essays based on lectures given at
the Orpheus Institute in Ghent at various occasions over the last
four years.
Two of our five distinguished authors are British, three are
Germans. Two are prominent composers and both keen and provocative
writers about music; one is a musicologist and daring critic who
specializes in contemporary music. There are also two philosophers
and Adorno specialists that deal with such fundamental and highly
complex matters as music and language, and music and time.
All authors subscribe to the same seriousness of purpose, so that you may find reminiscences of one text in the others, which will make for a fascinating read. Moreover, this book is all about the current state of music, about thinking, speaking, and writing about music in the immediate aftermath of that stirring and fascinating twentieth century.