Bartók and the Grotesque
Title | Bartók and the Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | Julie A. Brown |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780754657774 |
In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartók engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bartók's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartók was composing.
Bartók and the Grotesque
Title | Bartók and the Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Brown |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351574574 |
The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bartngaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bart concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While Barteveloped each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bartas composing.
Bart?nd the Grotesque
Title | Bart?nd the Grotesque PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781315096599 |
"The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), Bart?ngaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that Bart? concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While Bart?eveloped each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which Bart?as composing."--Provided by publisher.
Béla Bartók
Title | Béla Bartók PDF eBook |
Author | Elliott Antokoletz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 555 |
Release | 2011-04-14 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135845409 |
This research guide is an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources and catalogue of Bartók’s compositions. Since the publication of the second edition, a wealth of information has been proliferating in the field of Bartók research. The third edition of this research guide provides an update in this field and represents the multidisciplinary research areas in the growing Bartók literature.
The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music
Title | The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Philip |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 969 |
Release | 2018-12-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0300242727 |
An invaluable guide for lovers of classical music designed to enhance their enjoyment of the core orchestral repertoire from 1700 to 1950 Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shostakovich, this engaging companion explores and unpacks the most frequently performed works, including symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites, and ballet scores. It offers intriguing details about each piece while avoiding technical terminology that might frustrate the non-specialist reader. Philip identifies key features in each work, as well as subtleties and surprises that await the attentive listener, and he includes enough background and biographical information to illuminate the composer’s intentions. Organized alphabetically from Bach to Webern, this compendium will be indispensable for classical music enthusiasts, whether in the concert hall or enjoying recordings at home.
Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre
Title | Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | David Beard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 489 |
Release | 2012-10-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1139789082 |
David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the full-length operas, such as Punch and Judy, The Mask of Orpheus and Gawain. Blending source study with both music analysis and cultural criticism, the book focuses on the sometimes tense but always revealing relationship between abstract musical processes and the practical demands of narrative drama, while touching on theories of parody, narrative, pastoral, film, the body and community. Each stage work is considered in terms of its own specific musico-dramatic themes, revealing how compositional scheme and dramatic conception are intertwined from the earliest stages of a project's genesis. The study draws on a substantial body of previously undocumented primary sources and goes beyond previous studies of the composer's output to include works unveiled from 2000 onwards.
Music and Decadence in European Modernism
Title | Music and Decadence in European Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Downes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 387 |
Release | 2010-06-03 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0521767571 |
Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.