Transformations of musical modernism / edited by Erling E. Guldbrandsen and Julian Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guldbrandsen, Erling E., 1960- editor.

Johnson, Julian, editor.

Series:

Music since 1900.

Music since 1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Music).

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

Music.

Music--21st century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Profound transformations in the composition, performance and reception of modernist music have taken place in recent decades. This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the forms that musical modernism takes today, how modern music is performed and heard, and its relationship to earlier music. In sixteen chapters, leading figures in the field and emerging scholars examine modernist music from the inside, in terms of changing practices of composition, musical materials and overarching aesthetic principles, and from the outside, in terms of the changing contextual frameworks in which musical modernism has taken place and been understood. Shaped by a 'rehearing' of modernist music, the picture that emerges redraws the map of musical modernism as a whole and presents a full-scale re-evaluation of what the modernist movement has all been about.

Contents:

Introduction / Erling E. Guldbrandsen and Julian Johnson

Part I. Rethinking modernism. The lure of the sublime : revisiting the modernist project / Susan McClary ; Return of the repressed : particularity in early and late modernism / Julian Johnson ; Expressionism revisited : modernism beyond the twentieth century / Arnold Whittall ; Erik Bergman, cosmopolitanism and the transformation of musical geography / Björn Heile ; Sharing a stage : the growing proximity between modernism and popular music / David Metzer

Part II. Rewriting modernism. Ritual and Eros in James Dillon's Come live with me / Michael Cherlin ; Montage in modernity : scattered fragments, dynamic fragments / Jean-Paul Olive ; Transformations of appearance : suddenness and the modernist fragment / Marion Hestholm ; Rethinking Boulez : schemes, logics and paradigms of musical modernity / Edward Campbell ; Remembrance and prognosis in the music of György Ligeti / Peter Edwards ; Valentin Silvestrov and the symphonic monument in ruins / Samuel Wilson

Part III. Replaying Modernism. Playing with transformations : Boulez's Improvisation III sur Mallarmé / Erling E. Guldbrandsen ; Performance as critique / Arnulf Christian Mattes ; 'Unwrapping' the voice : Cathy Berberian and John Cage's Aria / Francesca Placanica ; Radically idiomatic instrumental practice in works by Brian Ferneyhough / Anders Førisdal ; The ethics of performance practice in complex music after 1945 / Tanja Orning.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-316-46153-X

1-316-46387-7

1-316-46426-1

1-316-46582-9

1-316-46465-2

1-316-46660-4

1-316-41176-1