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Transformations of musical modernism
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ISBN: 1316463877 1316464261 1316465829 1316464652 1316466604 1316411761 1107127211 1107566096 131646153X 9781316466605 9781316465820 9781316411766 9781107127210 9781107566095 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Modernism and opera
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ISBN: 9781421420622 9781421420639 1421420627 1421420635 Year: 2016 Publisher: Baltimore

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"At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows--the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the proto-modernist strains of Richard Wagner's Parsifal through the twenty-first-century modernism of Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin, the duet between modernism and opera, at turns harmonious and dissonant, has been one of the central artistic events of modernity. Despite this centrality, scholars of modernist literature only rarely venture into opera, and music scholars generally return the favor by leaving literature to one side. But opera, that grand cauldron of the arts, demands that scholars, too, share the stage with one another. In Modernism and Opera, Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith bring together musicologists, literary critics, and theater scholars for the first time in a mutual endeavor to trace certain key moments in the history of modernism and opera."--Book jacket.


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Broken beauty
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ISBN: 0190871202 0190871229 0190871237 0190871210 9780190871215 9780190871239 9780190871208 9780190871239 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY

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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.


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The quilting points of musical modernsim : revolution, reaction, and William Walton
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ISBN: 9780521765213 0521765218 9781139023894 9781139549080 1139549081 1139023896 1283716208 9781283716208 9781139551588 1139551582 9781139554046 1139554042 1139887947 1139563920 1139555294 1139550330 1108746837 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism, yet some American critics consider it elitist, undemocratic, and even unnatural. Drawing extensively on the philosophy of Heidegger and Badiou, Quilting Points proposes a new dialectical theory of faithful, reactive, and obscure subjective responses to musical modernism, which embraces all the music of Western modernity.


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Carl Nielsen and the idea of modernism
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ISBN: 1280377607 9786613555519 1846159296 1843835819 Year: 2010 Publisher: Woodbridge : Boydell,

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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).


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The Musical Relationship Between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky.
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ISBN: 1805433024 1648250904 Year: 2024 Publisher: Rochester : University of Rochester Press,

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Stravinsky's influence on Debussy in 1910-13 is demonstrated here in the many modernistic features of such works as the Preludes Book II, Khamma, and Jeux.


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The modernist legacy : essays on new music.
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ISBN: 9780754662600 9781315085876 9781351542395 9781138259836 0754662608 Year: 2009 Publisher: Aldershot Ashgate


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The Cambridge companion to modernist culture
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ISBN: 9781107627390 9781107049260 9781107278882 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press


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White musical mythologies : sonic presence in modernism
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ISBN: 150363664X Year: 2023 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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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"--

German modernism
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ISBN: 1282360264 1423727606 9786612360268 0520940806 1598757849 9780520940802 9781423727606 9780520243019 0520243013 9781598757842 9781282360266 9780520251489 0520251482 6612360267 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Presents the study of a pivotal era in the arts. This book examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, it questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870s through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism.

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