Neo-mythologism in music : from Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Crumb / by Victoria Adamenko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adamenko, Victoria, 1965- author.

Series:

Interplay (Hillsdale, N.Y.)

Interplay series ; no. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and mythology.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Hillsdale, NY : Pendagon Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This investigation aims to demonstrate how it is much more rewarding to view quintessential Western composers in a culturally non-purist and non-exclusive context, rather than insist on incongruity of independent cultural experiences. It has customarily been hard to overcome the divisions between the mind of a highly sophisticated art-musician and the mind of an aboriginal maker of music, myth, and ritual. Both neo-mythologism and neo-ritualism of the twentieth century clearly provide foundations for transcending the cultural borders. The role of mythification in compositional processes has remained outside the main focus of musicology. This book examines the different aspects of composers' thoughts from philosophical views and theoretical systems to operatic librettos and the musical fabric itself, including form, pitch organization, and instrumentation.

Contents:

Neo-mythologism : a hermeneutic construct and a historic trend

The prime structuring molds of myth and music

Towards the universality of myth

In search for the lost union : word-myth-music

Cosmologies

Numerology

Where time turns into space : the mythologem of a circle

Reception and critique.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781576472811

1576472817

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07742 hdl