ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the art music to come, after the dead-end of atonalism and serialism, and dissonance for dissonance sake have all been recognized as a repudiation of melos and the either overt or implicit ridiculing of the metaphysics of nostalgia, of which melos partakes. In 1959, the same time as he made Sketches of Spain, Miles Davis recorded a jazz album, Kind of Blue, in the cool idiom he had already invented. There were five tracks on the original. The first track, "So What", and the second, "Freddie Freeloader", are modern jazz. The third track, "Blue in Green", breaks in the same direction as "Saeta". Aura is the name of a 1989 album by Miles Davis which uses some formalistic techniques in an experimental way to explore colors musically. In a notebook known as Fusees, Baudelaire said, "music excavates heaven". These words are the aesthetic criteria of the new art music; they are how one recognizes it.
