Serbian and Greek art music : a patch to Western music history / edited by Katy Romanou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rōmanou, Kaitē.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Serbia--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Greece--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Serbian and Greek Art Music is the first ever book in the English language to examine the assimilation and development of western art music in Serbia and Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Music education, music life and the creation of the two neighbouring nations since they gained freedom from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century are themes that reverberate through the volume. The book relates the efforts of local musicians to synchronize their musical environment with the West and achieve the inclusion of Serbian and Greek music in western music history, an aim that see

Contents:

FrontCover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; A Note on the Transliteration of Names; PART I: ART MUSIC IN SERBIA; Chapter 1: Serbian Musical Theatre from the Mid-19th Century until World War II; Chapter 2: Musical Life in Serbia in the First Half of the 20th Century: Institutions and Repertoire; Chapter 3: Features of the Serbian Symphony in the First Half of the 20th Century; Chapter 4: The Music of Ljubica Marić : The National and the Universal in Harmony; Chapter 5: Serbian Music of the Second Half of the 20th Century: From Socialist Realism to Postmodernism

PART II: ART MUSIC IN GREECEChapter 6: The Ionian Islands; Chapter 7: The Greek National Music School; Chapter 8: Nikos Skalkottas; Chapter 9: Chrē stou, Adamē s, Koukos: Greek Avant-garde Music During the Second Half of the 20th Century; Index of Persons

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612312434

9781282312432

128231243X

9781841503387

184150338X

OCLC:

457059412