When Music Resists Meaning
The Major Writings of Herbert Brün
Herbert Brün; Chandra Arun, ed.

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• LISTENING Teaching the Function of Time in Art o The Function of Time in Art
• Music and Information and Communication and Chaos and. . .
• The Listener’s Interpretation of Music
• For Anticommunication
• Symphony no. 9 by Gustav Mahler
• COMPOSING Toward Composition
• Against Plausibility
• As to Percussion . . .
• Guest Editorial in Keyboard Magazine
• Wayfaring Sounds
• COMPOSING WITH COMPUTERS Technology and the Composer
• From Musical Ideas to Computers and Back
• . . . to hold discourse – at least – with a computer . . .
• Composer’s Input Outputs Music
• As to the Computer . . .
• CYBERNETICS Drawing Distinctions Links Contradictions
• The Establishment of Connections
• Choosing the Connections You Make
• On the Treatment of Complex Entities
• The Need of Cognition for the Cognition of Needs
• POETRY AND PLAYS Sentences Now Open Wide
• about five of the great Is
• Drummage
• Max
• The Invecticide
• POSTLUDE: APPENDICES A: Biography of Herbert Brün, 1918-2000
• B: Declarations
• C: Paradigms: The Inertia of Language
• D: Note on the Computer Graphics
• E: Program Notes for Music Compositions by Herbert Brün
• F: Chronological L:ist of Herbert Brün’s Compositions
• Chronological List of Herbert Brün’s Publications
• H: Compact Disk Track Notes




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