Janáček studies / edited by Paul Wingfield.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wingfield, Paul, editor.

Series:

Cambridge composer studies.

Cambridge composer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928--Criticism and interpretation.

Janáček, Leoš.

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Mer.

Debussy, Claude.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first major publication devoted to the music of Janácek, now widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays, all by leading scholars, deal with a broad range of subjects relating to opera, symphonic poem, instrumental music, cultural context and reception. Some topics, such as the sources of Janácek's musical expressivity, questions of narrative, Janácek as musical analyst and Janácek as realist, are considered seriously for the first time, whilst other more conventional topics, such as 'speech melody' and Janácek's ethnographic activities, are reappraised. A transcription of Janácek's analytical study of 'Jeux de vagues' from Debussy's La mer is published for the first time, and this document is considered in the light of Janácek's theory of music as a whole and of the reception of La mer.

Contents:

Expressive sources and resources in Janáček's musical language / Robin Holloway

"Nothing but pranks and puns" : Janáček's solo piano music / Thomas Adès

Narrative in Janáček's symphonic poems / Hugh MacDonald

Evasive realism : narrative construction in Dostoyevsky's and Janáček's From the house of the dead / Geoffrey Chew and Robert Vilain

Direct discourse and speech melody in Janáček's operas / Miloš Štědroň

Kundera's eternal present and Janáček's ancient gypsy / Michael Beckerman

Janáček's folk settings and the "Vixen" / Zdeněk Skoumal

Janáček's operas in Australia and New Zealand : a performance history / Adrienne Simpson

Janáček's Moravian publishers / Nigel Simeone

Janáček, musical analysis, and Debussy's Jeux de vagues / Paul Wingfield.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17289-6

0-511-37022-9

0-511-48205-1

OCLC:

761647360