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Profound transformations in the composition, performance and reception of modernist music have taken place in recent decades. This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the forms that musical modernism takes today, how modern music is performed and heard, and its relationship to earlier music. In sixteen chapters, leading figures in the field and emerging scholars examine modernist music from the inside, in terms of changing practices of composition, musical materials and overarching aesthetic principles, and from the outside, in terms of the changing contextual frameworks in which musical modernism has taken place and been understood. Shaped by a 'rehearing' of modernist music, the picture that emerges redraws the map of musical modernism as a whole and presents a full-scale re-evaluation of what the modernist movement has all been about.

Music --- Modernism (Music) --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- History and criticism.

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'Broken beauty' draws on two decades of work in disability studies and a growing body of recent work that brings the discussion of disability into musicology and music theory.

People with disabilities in music. --- Music --- Modernism (Music) --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical

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A critical re-evaluation of the music of Carl Nielsen which examines its context and relationship to musical modernism. Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) remains arguably the most underrated composer of his international generation. This book offers a critical re-evaluation of Carl Nielsen's music and his rich literary and artistic contexts. Drawing extensively on contemporary writing, criticism, and the newly completed ‘Carl Nielsen Edition’, the book presents a series of case studies centred on key works in Carl Nielsen's output. Topics covered include his relationship with symbolism and fin-de-siècle decadence, vitalism, counterpoint, and the Danish landscape. Running throughout the book is a critical engagement with the idea of musical modernism - a term which, for Nielsen, was fraught with anxiety and yet provided a constant creative stimulus. Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) is one of the most playful, life-affirming and awkward voices in twentieth-century music. His work resists easy stylistic categorisation or containment, yet its melodic richness and harmonic vitality are immediately appealing and engaging. Nielsen's symphonies, concertos and operas are an increasingly prominent feature of the international repertoire, and his songs remain perennially popular at home in Denmark. But his work has only rarely attracted sustained critical attention within the scholarly community; he remains arguably the most underrated composer of his international generation. This book offers a critical re-evaluation of Carl Nielsen's music and his rich literary and artistic contexts. Drawing extensively on contemporary writing and criticism, as well as the research of the newly completed ‘Carl Nielsen Edition’, the book presents a series of case studies centred on key works in Carl Nielsen's output, particularly his comic opera ‘Maskarade’, the Third Symphony (‘Sinfonia Espansiva’), and his final symphony, the ‘Sinfonia Semplice’. Topics covered include his relationship with symbolism and fin-de-siècle decadence, vitalism, counterpoint, and the Danish landscape. Running throughout the book is a critical engagement with the idea of musical modernism - a term which, for Nielsen, was fraught with anxiety and yet provided a constant creative stimulus. DANIEL M. GRIMLEY holds a University Lectureship in Music at Oxford, and is the Tutorial Fellow in Music at Merton College and Lecturer in Music, Landscape at University College. His previous books include ‘Grieg: Music, Landscape and Norwegian Identity’ (Boydell, 2006) and the ‘Cambridge Companion to Sibelius’ (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Modernism (Music) --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- Nielsen, Carl, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Carl Nielsen. --- Danish landscape. --- concertos. --- musical modernism. --- opera. --- symphonies. --- twentieth-century music.

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"Examining a series of modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with non-European cultures as they pursued pure sound as a privileged presence, White Musical Mythologies pairs Erik Satie with Bergson, Edgard Varèse with Bataille, Pierre Boulez with Artaud, and John Cage with Derrida to offer an ambitious intellectual history of the colonial roots of modernist musical thought. Each of the musicians studied in this book re-created or appropriated non-European forms of expression as they conceived music ontologically, often thinking music as something immediate and immersive: from Satie's dabblings with mysticism and exoticism in bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s to Varèse's experience of ethnographic exhibitions and surrealist poetry in 1930s Paris, and from Boulez's endeavor to theorize a kind of musical writing that would "absorb" the sounds of non-European musical traditions to Cage, who took inspiration from Eastern thought as he wrote about sound, silence, and chance. Edmund Mendelssohn suggests that the Euro-American idea of "pure sound," and the twentieth-century quest to produce it, was premised on an assumed authority of "the West" over Europe's others. Intended for readers in philosophy, musicology, art theory, the history of modernism, sound studies, and postcolonial studies, this book demonstrates that we cannot fully understand French theory in its novelty and complexity without music and sound"--

Modernism (Music) --- Avant-garde (Music) --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Music --- Philosophy, French --- Postcolonialism and music. --- History --- Foreign influences. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Derrida. --- Levinas. --- Modernism. --- Modernist Music. --- Ontology. --- Performance. --- Philosophy. --- Presence. --- Sound Studies. --- White Mythology.