Reclaiming late-romantic music : singing devils and distant sounds / Peter Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Peter.

Series:

Ernest Bloch lectures.

Ernest Bloch lectures

Ernest Bloch Lectures ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--19th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period-Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini-regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic symphonies and operas steered a complex course between modernism and mass culture in the period leading up to the Second World War. The style's continuing popularity and its domination of the film music idiom (via work by composers such as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and their successors) bring late-romantic music to thousands of listeners who have never set foot in a concert hall. Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music sheds new light on these often unfairly disparaged works and explores the historical dimension of their continuing role in the contemporary sound world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

1. Setting the Scene: Grandiose Symphonics and the Trouble with Art

2. Pessimism, Ecstasy, and Distant Voices: Listening to Late-Romanticism

3. Sunsets, Sunrises, and Decadent Oceanics

4. Making the World Weep (Problems with Opera)

5. Late-Romanticism Meets Classical Music at the Movies

6. The Bitter Truth of Modernism: A Late-Romantic Story

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520958036

0520958039

OCLC:

867819222