Reviews for Bass 101: A Contemporary Approach to Playing Bass, Book & DVD

The average rating for Bass 101: A Contemporary Approach to Playing Bass, Book & DVD based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-18 00:00:00 Daniel Landau Here Adorno surveys the landscape of musical modernity which serves as the battleground for Philosophy of New Music. Not only do we get 'A Dialectical Portrait' of Stravinsky, carrying on the critique elaborated in the aforementioned title, but we get much needed studies of the work of Zemlinsky and Schreker, who are both often neglected figures. The enthusiastic studies of Mahler and Berg are fantastic, and should prove to anybody that Adorno is not only at his best when operating in the realm of scathing critique. In the last and most intriguing essay, 'Vers une musique informelle', Adorno seems to sketch out a manifesto of sorts, for an 'informal music'. Through philosophical encounters with the works of all significant composers from the Schoenberg school up to Stockhausen and Boulez, Adorno elucidates the problems posed by New Music, and tries to find a way forward. The whole weight of his knowledge and insight is channeled through questions of form, subjectivity and musical material, integral composition, and the primacy of the note. Weaving together all of these complex threads, Adorno produces one of his definitive statements on New Music, but most importantly, one that acts as a theoretical intervention. Onward to Aesthetic Theory.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-08 00:00:00 Roland Aporius Reference book for an article... Well if you like dense music theory, Adorno is you whip master.