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Roberto Gerhard : re-appraising a musical visionary in exile / edited by Monty Adkins and Rachel E. Mann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 252.
- British Academy scholarship online.
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 252
- British Academy scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gerhard, Roberto, 1896-1970--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gerhard, Roberto.
- Music--Political aspects--Spain--History.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Marking the 125th anniversary of the birth of Roberto Gerhard, this work views the composer's life and oeuvre through the lens of the Spanish Civil War, exile, and cultural translation. Through these different threads, a new and more nuanced understanding of Gerhard and the political and cultural milieu that influenced his work emerges.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series Information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures, Tables, and Musical Examples
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Gerhard's Cultural Milieu: An Explorer and a Survivor
- Europe in Turmoil
- Exiles in Britain
- Gerhard in Exile
- Gerhard and Modernism
- DNA in Reflection
- Artistic Truth in Exile
- 2 The Forgotten Legacies of Spanish Civil War Exile: Dispersed, Diverse, Divided
- Numbers and Trajectories
- Exile and the Nation
- Exiles and Host Governments
- Nationalism and Internationalism
- Exile and Histories of Culture
- 3 The Musical Aesthetic of Robert Gerhard (1914 -1938)
- Popular Music and Tradition in the Compositions of Robert Gerhard
- Pure Music, Programme Music, and Applied Music
- Atonal Music and Applied Music
- Conclusion
- 4 Between Heuristic and Hypostatisation
- National Identity
- Exile
- Serialism
- Meaning
- 5 National Identity and Spanish Republican Exile
- 6 Exile, Music, and Cultural Translation: Gerhard's Transnational Chronotopes
- The Cold War and Abstract Music
- National Stereotypes and the Legacies of European Orientalism
- Schoenberg and Anti-Germanism
- 7 Roberto Gerhard's First Decade of Exile (1939-1949): Rootlessness and Survival
- The Uncertainty of the First Months in Exile
- 'A Fairy Tale': A Scholarship at Cambridge
- Adapting to England
- The Catalan Cause
- Fighting against Discouragement
- Gerhard's First Return to Catalonia
- The Catalan Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music
- 'Forced Labours' for Survival
- Symphonic Music
- Gerhard's Ballets and Opera
- 8 Gerhard as Composer in Exile.
- 9 Memoir of the Spanish Civil War: A Political Reading of Roberto Gerhard's Ballet Pandora
- From Ballet to Five-Movement Suite
- The Five-Movement Suite Pandora (1950)
- The Quest: Seeing beyond Appearances
- Psyche and the Youth: The Meeting of Past and Present
- The Youth and 'Rosa del Folló'
- Psyche and 'Ad mortem festinamus'
- The Monster's Drill: An Uneven Battle
- Death and the Mothers: The Cost of War
- Pandora's Political Significance
- 10 'Staple of the Contemporary Music Scene': Roberto Gerhard in Geopolitical Perspective
- Gerhard's Writings on the Nature of Music and Its Social Role
- Geopolitical Aesthetics and Gerhard' Exilic Output
- Rethinking Gerhard in Cold War Britain
- 11 The Influence of the Spanish Civil War in Gerhard's Guitar Music
- Gerhard's Cantares
- From The Revenge for Love to Fantasia
- From For Whom the Bell Tolls to Libra
- 12 Roberto Gerhard's Cantares: Seven Songs of Absence … and a Presence
- Musicians of 'the Wrong Note School'
- From the Voice to the Guitar through Julian Bream
- Canciones de guitarra as Hyperspace
- An Epilogue and Some Conclusions
- 13 'Smiling Bravely at the Night': Roberto Gerhard's Symphony No. 3, 'Collages', and Albert Camus's 'Retour à Tipasa'
- 'Planting Clues' and 'Covering Traces': Programmes Open and Secret?
- Camusian Correspondences
- Conclusion: Being Faithful
- 14 A Voice Apart: Constructing a Cosmopolitan Identity in Exile
- Who is Roberto Gerhard?
- In Gerhard's Own Words
- The 'Tonality of a Twelve-Tone Series'
- The Influence of Mathematics and Science, and Gerhard's Advances in Temporal Theory
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80596-055-5
- 1-80596-089-X
- 0-19-199175-9
- OCLC:
- 1389529169
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