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Jean Sibelius and His World /
Perhaps no twentieth-century composer has provoked a more varied reaction among the music-loving public than Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Originally hailed as a new Beethoven by much of the Anglo-Saxon world, he was also widely disparaged by critics more receptive to newer trends in music. At the heig...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2011]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | The Bard Music Festival ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments and Permissions
- Sibelius, Finland, and t he Idea of Landscape
- Part I. Essays
- Sibelius and the Russian Traditions
- From Heaven's Floor to the Composer's Desk: Sibelius's Musical Manuscripts and Compositional Process
- Theatrical Sibelius: The Melodramatic Lizard
- The Wings of a Butterfly: Sibelius and the Problems of Musical Modernity
- "Thor's Hammer": Sibelius and British Music Critics, 1905-1957
- Jean Sibelius and His American Connections
- Art and the Ideology of Nature: Sibelius, Hamsun, Adorno
- Storms, Symphonies, Silence: Sibelius's Tempest Music and the Invention of Late Style
- Waving from the Periphery: Sibelius, Aalto, and the Finnish Pavilions
- Old Masters: Jean Sibelius and Richard Strauss in the Twentieth Century
- PART II. DOCUMENTS
- Selections from Adolf Paul's A Book About a Human Being
- Some Viewpoints Concerning Folk Music and Its Influence on the Musical Arts
- Selection from Erik Furuhjelm's Jean Sibelius: A Survey of his Life and Music
- Adorno on Sibelius
- Monumentalizing Sibelius: Eila Hiltunen and the Sibelius Memorial Controversy
- Index
- Notes on the Contributors