Edward Elgar, Modernist

Informationen zum Autor J. P. E. Harper-Scott is Temporary Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He studied at the University of Durham and at Magdalen College, Oxford. His essays on Elgar have been published in 19th-Century Music and Music Analysis, and he is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Elgar. He is the co-editor, with Julian Rushton, of an essay collection, Elgar Studies (Cambridge, 2007). This is his first book. Klappentext An analytical study of Elgar's music and its place in European musical history. Zusammenfassung The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music! this book gives a historical overview of its place in European musical history. Harper-Scott argues that Elgar was a modernist composer! and that his music constitutes a pessimistic twentieth-century assessment of the nature of human being. A detailed glossary is included. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Glossary; 1. Styles and ideas; 2. A Heideggerian refinement of Shenker's theory; 3. Immuring and immured tonalities: tonal malaise in the First Symphony, Op. 55; 4. 'Fracted and corroborate': narrative implications of form and tonality in Falstaff, Op. 68; 5. Hermeneutics and mimesis; 6. The annihilation of hope and the unpicking of identity: Elgarian hermeneutics; 7. Modern music, modern man; Bibliography.

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• Authors: J. P. E. Harper-Scott, J. P. E. (Royal Holloway Harper-Scott, J. P. E. (University of Liverpool) Harper-Scott, J.p.e. (University of Liverpool) Harper-Scott, Paul Harper-Scott
• Assisted by: Arnold Whittall (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521862004
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86200-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Music in the Twentieth Century
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous