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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.