Maceda, Spahlinger and the Dialectics of a “New Music” Praxis in Southeast Asian Modernity Art The New English Library Limited

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Maceda, Spahlinger and the Dialectics of a “New Music” Praxis in Southeast Asian Modernity Art The New English Library LimitedThis book transcends personal encounters to construct an analytic framework for new music composition based on the Hegelian principle of sublation. Its main focus, Music for Gongs and Bamboo (1997) by Filipino composer Jos Maceda (1917 2004) and Gegen Unendlich (1995) by German composer Mathias Spahlinger (b. 1944), deliberately poses unique challenges to the European traditional Gestalt of harmonic practice. This book will show the ramifications to