co-sponsored by Wilfrid Laurier University, the Institute for Canadian Music, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and NUMUS Concerts ; Peter Hatch and John Beckwith, editors
iv, 126 pages : illustrations, music, portraits ; 23 cm
ISBNs
9780772785572, 0772785570
OCLC
ocm27247000
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-118).
The fifth stream. The fifth stream divided / Peter Hatch ; Musical universals : an aesthetic alternative to the ebony tower / Glenn Buhr ; A root awakening : some sense and value in transcultural music / John Rea ; Discussion 1 -- Crossing over. New American music : how it is felt in Canada / Jean Piché ; Not fusion, but confusion / Henry Kucharzyk ; Us versus them : the twentieth century dilemma / John Hawkins ; Discussion 2 -- Aesthetic pluralism. Who or what is the audience anyway? : a new look at the composer's dilemma of exploration vs. communication / David Mott ; The perception of new music in the context of radio broadcasting / David Jaeger ; Electroacoustic music in the fifth stream / Claude Schryer ; Discussion 3 -- Composers and society. Perspectives on concert music, the "sick man" of contemporary culture / William E. Benjamin ; Musical diversity, musical pluralism, and music education / David J. Elliott ; Post-modernism, history, music, or, leaning from architecture / Nikolas Kompridis ; Discussion 4