Adorno and the Aesthetics of Postwar Serial Music

Adorno and the Aesthetics of Post-War Serial Music is the first monograph to deal comprehensively with the relationship between Theodor W. Adorno's aesthetics and serial music after the Second World War. Adorno's extensive writings and lectures on serialism, his intimate knowledge of the technique and his personal acquaintances with leading composers of serial music had a decisive influence on his philosophical work. This in turn exerted a clear influence on composers of the post-war period - an influence that can be clearly seen in the compositional theories and aesthetic concepts of the time.

The book offers a detailed analysis of these ideas and situates them in their historical, philosophical and cultural context. It enables a deeper understanding not only of serial music and its aesthetics, but also of Adorno and his aesthetic theory. The publication is thus aimed equally at female composers, music historians, philosophers, criticsand anyone interested in the aesthetics of modernism.

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