The music of Pavel Haas : analytical and hermeneutical studies / Martin Čurda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Čurda, Martin, author.

Series:

Ashgate studies in theory and analysis of music after 1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haas, Pavel--Criticism and interpretation.

Haas, Pavel.

Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928--Influence.

Janáček, Leoš.

Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928.

Music--Czechoslovakia--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Internment camp inmates as musicians--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj).

Internment camp inmates as musicians.

Nazi concentration camp inmates as musicians--Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj).

Nazi concentration camp inmates as musicians.

Criticism and interpretation.

Czech Republic--Terezín (Ústecký kraj).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Czechoslovakia.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leoš Janáček's compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terezín (Theresienstadt). However, the nature of Janáček's influence remains largely unexplained and the focus on the context of the Holocaust tends to yield a one-sided view of Haas's oeuvre. The existing scholarship offers limited insight into Haas's compositional idiom and does not sufficiently explain the composer's position with respect to broader aesthetic trends and artistic networks in inter-war Czechoslovakia and beyond. This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Haas's music since the publication of Lubomír Peduzzi's 'life and work' monograph in 1993. It provides the reader with an enhanced understanding of Haas's music through analytical and hermeneutical interpretation as well as cultural and aesthetic contextualisation, and thus reveal the rich nuances of Haas's multi-faceted work which have not been sufficiently recognised so far"-- Provided by publisher.

"The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leo�s Jan�a�cek's compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terez�in (Theresienstadt). However, the nature of Jan�a�cek's influence remains largely unexplained and the focus on the context of the Holocaust tends to yield a one-sided view of Haas's oeuvre. The existing scholarship offers limited insight into Haas's compositional idiom and does not sufficiently explain the composer's position with respect to broader aesthetic trends and artistic networks in inter-war Czechoslovakia and beyond. This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Haas's music since the publication of Lubom�ir Peduzzi's 'life and work' monograph in 1993. It provides the reader with an enhanced understanding of Haas's music through analytical and hermeneutical interpretation as well as cultural and aesthetic contextualisation, and thus reveal the rich nuances of Haas's multi-faceted work which have not been sufficiently recognised so far"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Music and Avant-Garde Discourse in Inter-War Czechoslovakia

From the Monkey Mountains: The Body, the Grotesque, and Carnival

Suite for Piano, Op. 13 (1935): Neoclassical Tendencies

Rhythmic Layers and Musical Form: Janáčekian Elements in Haas's Compositional Practice

Haas's Charlatan: A Tragi-Comedy about Old Comedians, Modern Individualists, and Uncanny Doubles

Four Songs on Chinese Poetry : Grief, Melancholy, Uncanny Reflections, and Vicious Circles in Songs from Terezín.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Čurda, Martin, The music of Pavel Haas

ISBN:

9781138360013

1138360015

OCLC:

1130322317

Publisher Number:

99984992611