Scott Gleason, author of Composing Modernism, takes us through a selection of pieces that demonstrate how the post-World War II music composition practiced at and around Princeton University defined musical modernism in the Cold War United States.
By Lawrence Kramer, author of Music and the Forms of LifeThe concept of life has a long and complicated history, but its modern version can be said to date to the late seventeenth century. The science of the time launched a concerted effort to discover what made living bodies, particularly human