Publication details
Budoucnost už máme za sebou. Několik úvah o minulosti, přítomnosti a budoucnosti hudby
| Title in English | The future has already passed. A few remarks on history, presence and future of music |
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Duchovní proudy v současném umění 2015: Vize budoucnosti |
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| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | music history; contemporary music; early music; John Cage; Iannis Xenakis; Igor Stravinsky |
| Description | The history of 20th century music is replete with examples of obsessions by the future at the expense of the present. As if the future lent its legitimacy to the presence of musical thinking. Those days are thankfully gone. Italian Futurists, Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage and others have become historical showpieces of future forecasts of music and today more than ever remind us that the only givenness in music is her past. This may or may not become a source of making a present, while the future is only a projection of our wishes and desires. |
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