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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Franklin, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:Ernest Bloch lectures.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Music > 19th century > History and criticism.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Musique > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
Music.
Musik
Romantik
Rezeption
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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