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Alors qu'on ne cesse d'étudier les bouleversements politiques, sociaux, ou philosophiques qu'ont entraînés la Révolution française et l'épopée napoléonienne, s'est-on jamais interrogé sur les transformations auxquelles s'est trouvée soumise la musique sous le choc des événements qui se sont alors soudainement précipités à travers toute l'Europe ? Certes plus d'un a remarqué l'écho des musiques militaires dans les symphonies de Beethoven et jusque chez Rossini, dont la musique bruyante témoigne encore de ce qu'il est "le fils d'un siècle de fracas". On a vu également, dans cette veine guerrière, fleurir moult pièces de circonstance - représentations musicales de batailles ou cantates - illustrant sur le mode pittoresque une actualité fertile en épisodes mouvementés. Mais, au-delà de ces musiques de circonstance, on est frappé par le souci de simplification du discours qui anime soudain nombre de compositeurs, que ce soit les expérimentations menées avec les masses sonores par Gossec et Méhul écrivant pour les fêtes de la Révolution, ou celles développées avec la force que l'on sait par Beethoven, dont la musique est ressentie alors comme "colossale". Apparaît alors un penchant général pour des effets sonores puissants, le goût d'instrumenter de façon épaisse, de grossir le trait, de privilégier des tempos rapides, de jouer fort. Ainsi donc, en ce tournant du XVIIIe au XIXe siècle qu'accompagne la rumeur des batailles révolutionnaires et napoléoniennes naît un nouveau ton, fait de registres divers : hiératisme sublime chez Gluck, lenteur réfléchir chez Beethoven, fascination pour la vitesse et goût de l'élan chez Weber, effets de masse et de spatialisation sonore chez Berlioz, ivresse rythmique chez Rossini. C'est l'unité de ce champ stylistique, réplique du grand tremblement de terre de l'Histoire, qu'analyse cet ouvrage nourri de la pensée des grands écrivains de l'époque où le sentiment du sublime se trouve porté à son comble.

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Prolific and personable, innovative and contentious, Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was considered to be one of the most promising young talents in modern British music at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a member of the 'Frankfurt Group' (together with Percy Grainger, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Balfour Gardiner), his music was performed by some of the leading conductors of the time in Britain and on the Continent, and his friends included highly influential figures in European literature, art and politics. Apart from his music, Scott was the author of many books on alternative medicine, psychology, Occultism, Theosophy and comparative religion. He also wrote fiction, autobiography, and poetry. Scott embodied a unique time in a particularly unique way. His aesthetic ideas informed both his professional creative practice and his manner of living. He was not merely a composer, but an artist in the broadest possible sense of the term. This book provides the first comprehensive account of Scott's life and influences as well as an outline and contextualization of his aesthetic thinking. It traces his changing conception of the function of art and the role of the artist from his formative exposure to Symbolism through his friendship with the German poet Stefan George, to his exploration of Western and Eastern esoteric traditions, showing how the prevailing cross-pollination of ideas allowed him to develop a fully integrated rationale for his art and life. The story of Scott's development guides the reader through some of the most fascinating intellectual discourses of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Europe. Sarah Collins' current research focuses on British music aesthetics and criticism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She has a particular interest in the interaction between turn-of-the-century conceptions of the function of criticism, theories of critical intuition and questions of moral philosophy. She lectured at the University of Queensland from 2006 and joined the faculty of Monash University in 2012.

Composers -- Europe -- Biography. --- Music -- Europe -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Music -- Europe -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Scott, Cyril, 1879-1970. --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Composers --- Scott, Cyril, --- Scott, Cyril Meir, --- Skott, S. --- Skott, Siril Meĭr, --- Scott, S., --- Aesthetics. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians. --- Aesthetic thinking. --- Art and life. --- British music. --- Comparative religion. --- Cyril Scott. --- Early-twentieth-century Europe. --- Frankfurt Group. --- Late-nineteenth-century Europe. --- Occultism. --- Percy Grainger. --- Stefan George. --- Symbolism. --- Theosophy. --- Western and Eastern esoteric traditions.