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Reclaiming late-romantic music : singing devils and distant sounds /

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period-Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini-regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally sel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Franklin, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:Ernest Bloch lectures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting the scene : grandiose symphonics and the trouble with art
  • Pessimism, ecstasy and distant voices : listening to late-romanticism
  • Sunsets, sunrises and decadent oceanics
  • Making the world weep (more problems with opera)
  • Late romanticism meets classical music at the movies
  • The bitter truth of modernism : a late-romantic story.