A study of time in twentieth-century musical ritual: a musico-philosophical development from Debussy (through Stravinsky, Webern and Messiaen) to Stockhausen, in the utilization of musical time and ecstatic musical involvement for the purpose of transcending the consciousness of Real Time and Space.

The study rests on a fundamental premise: The artist, in his art, reflects the consciousness of his time. "Man of a given time and place, in creating the ideological and artistic systems by which he has expressed himself, has projected into his philosophy, his literature, and his art a reflection of...

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