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British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351573012
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 written by Matthew Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization.

British Musical Modernism

Author : Philip Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521844487
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book British Musical Modernism written by Philip Rupprecht and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977

Author : Barry J. Faulk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171527
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 written by Barry J. Faulk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating the traditional forms of Victorian music hall. Faulk focuses on the mid to late 1960s, when British rock bands who had already achieved commercial prominence began to aspire to aesthetic distinction. The book discusses recordings such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album, the Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society, and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and television films such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus that defined rock's early high art moment. Faulk argues that these 'texts' disclose the primary strategies by which British rock groups, mostly comprised of young working and lower middle-class men, made their bid for aesthetic merit by sampling music hall sounds. The result was a symbolically charged form whose main purpose was to unsettle the hierarchy that set traditional popular culture above the new medium. Rock groups engaged with the music of the past in order both to demonstrate the comparative vitality of the new form and signify rock's new art status, compared to earlier British pop music. The book historicizes punk rock as a later development of earlier British rock, rather than a rupture. Unlike earlier groups, the Sex Pistols did not appropriate music hall form in an ironic way, but the band and their manager Malcolm McLaren were obsessed with the meaning of the past for the present in a distinctly modernist fashion.

The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music

Author : Björn Heile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131704245X
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music written by Björn Heile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from prominent scholars associated with the ‘new musicology’. Yet these critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the ‘contemporary’, and the crucial distinction between modernism in popular culture and a ‘popular modernism’, a modernism of the people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed essence.

"British Music and Modernism, 1895?960 "

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351573004
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "British Music and Modernism, 1895?960 " written by Matthew Riley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization.

Lateness and Modernism

Author : Sarah Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108481493
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Lateness and Modernism written by Sarah Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of musical figures within 'late modernism', presenting a new understanding of the politics and aesthetics of lateness.

English Pastoral Music

Author : Eric Saylor
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099656
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book English Pastoral Music written by Eric Saylor and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed established musical and aesthetic conventions that reflected the experiences of British composers and audiences during the early twentieth century. By approaching pastoral music as a cultural phenomenon dependent on time and place, Saylor forcefully challenges the body of critical opinion that has long dismissed it as antiquated, insular, and reactionary.

Henri Bergson and British Modernism

Author : Mary Ann Gillies
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566139
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Henri Bergson and British Modernism written by Mary Ann Gillies and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996-09-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the work of T.E. Hulme, the Men of 1914, the Bloomsbury Group, T.S. Eliot, and John Middleton Murry, Gillies convincingly demonstrates that Bergson's theories underlie the literary aesthetics of the period that forms the intellectual basis of modern literature. She then turns her critical eye to five major modernist writers - T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, and Joseph Conrad - and provides insightful and detailed Bergsonian readings of their major works. Drawing on material not previously available, Gillies persuasively argues that Bergson was a major intellectual force in British literature during the first thirty years of the twentieth century.

Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Author : David Metzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107402805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Musical Modernism at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century written by David Metzer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an interesting approach to developments in modernist music - from 1980 onwards - this study also presents an intriguing perspective on the larger history of modernism. Far from being supplanted by a postmodern period, argues David Metzer, modernist idioms remain vital in the contemporary scene. The vitality comes from the ways in which those idioms have extended impulses of modernist styles from the early twentieth century. Since that time, works have participated in lines of inquiry into various compositional and aesthetic topics, particularly the explorations of how to build pieces around such aesthetic ideals as purity and silence and how to deliver and manipulate expressive utterances. Metzer shows how these inquiries have played crucial roles in defining directions taken since 1980, and how, through the inquiries, we can gain a clearer idea of what makes the decades after 1980 a distinct period in the history of modernism.

Ruth Gipps

Author : Jill Halstead
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754601784
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Ruth Gipps written by Jill Halstead and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's most prolific female composers. Gipps's talents were acknowledged but not always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy. In the first major review of her life and work the importance of Ruth Gipps is established in two ways: first, as a pioneering woman composer and conductor whose work challenged prevailing attitudes in the era directly after the war and second, as a composer whose musical philosophy was often at odds with mainstream thinking. Although she was branded a reactionary, her position reveals a number of important counter currents in English musical life in the twentieth century.

British Modernism and Chinoiserie

Author : Anne Witchard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748690972
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book British Modernism and Chinoiserie written by Anne Witchard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.

Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity written by Karol Berger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encourages a debate over musical modernity; a debate considering the question whether an examination of the history of European art music may enrich our picture of modernity and whether our understanding of music's development may be transformed by insights into the nature of modernity provided by other historical disciplines.

Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War

Author : Joanna Bullivant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033365
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War written by Joanna Bullivant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Author : Ben Earle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521844037
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy written by Ben Earle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte ('Night Flight') and Il prigioniero ('The Prisoner'), and the choral Canti di prigionia ('Songs of Imprisonment'), setting them in the context of contemporary politics to trace their complex path from fascism to resistance. Earle also considers the wider relationship between musical modernism and Italian fascism, exploring the origins of musical modernism and investigating its place in the institutional structures created by Mussolini's regime. In doing so, he sheds new light on Dallapiccola's work and on the cultural politics of the early twentieth century to provide a history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siècle to the early Cold War.

Early Modernism

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198182528
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Early Modernism written by Christopher Butler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modernism is a uniquely integrated introduction to the great avant-garde movements in European literature, music, and painting at the beginning of this century, from the advent of Fauvism to the development of Dada. In contrast to the overly literary focus of previous studies of modernism, this book highlights the interaction between the arts in this period. It traces the fundamental and interlinked re-examination of the languages of the arts brought about by Matisse, Picasso, Schoenberg, Eliot, Apollinaire, Marinetti, Ben, and many others, which led to radically new techniques, such as atonality, cubism, and collage. These changes are set in the context both of the art that preceded them and of a new and profound shift in ideas. Theories of the unconscious, the association of ideas, primitivism, and reliance upon an expressionist intuition led to a reshaped conception of personal identity, and Butler examines the representation of the modernist self in the work of figures including Mann, Joyce, Conrad, and Stravinsky. Accessible and wide-ranging, the book is lavishly illustrated with over sixty illustrations, many in color. It provides an elegant and incisive guide to a momentous period in the history of European art.

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977

Author : Barry J. Faulk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171519
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics

Author : Gemma Moss
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474429917
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Modernism, Music and the Politics of Aesthetics written by Gemma Moss and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an approach to music informed by T. W. Adorno, this book examines the real-world, political significance of seemingly abstracted things like musical and literary forms. Re-assessing music in James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Sylvia Townsend Warner, this book re-shapes temporal, aesthetic and political understandings of modernism, by arguing that music plays a crucial role in ongoing attempts to investigate language, rational thought and ideology using aesthetic forms.