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Beauty in Music - Conflicting Views in the Modern Age

English · Hardback

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This book is interdisciplinary in nature and examines the debate over beauty in twentieth-century art. It synthesizes artistic phenomena and composers' aesthetic attitudes considering the ideological and social contexts of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

List of contents










Introduction - Part I. Towards modernity - 1. In the shadow of Wagner and Nietzsche - 2. The ideas of pantheism, theosophy and futurism and their resonance in the art of musical composition - 3. Interest in non- European and old pagan cultures - 4. The controversial idea of national music - Part II. The height of modernity - 5. The dispute over the aesthetics of modern music - 6. The dispute over 'unity in variety' in the art of composition and the notion of progress - 7. Avant- garde ideas of serialism, aleatorism and sonorism - 8. The Cold War in musical culture, the yearning for beauty and the joy of making music - Part III. In the fetters of late modernity - 9. The decline of the idea of progress and the search for new creative ideas - 10. Liberation from the pressure of the avant- garde: postmodern games with tradition, the 'musical ark' and the biblical world in music - 11. 'Eternal' classicism and existential dilemmas in music - List of examples - Selected bibliography - Index

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Alicja Jarz¿bska, is a full professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, specializing in music history and theory. She has lectured at instituitions such as the State University of New York, Universität Regensburg, Universität Salzburg, and Kamensky University in Bratislava. She has conducted a series of lectures at the University of Poznä, the Academy of Music in Cracow, and the University of Music in Warsaw. She is the author of several books, including Stravinsky. His Thoughts and Music (2020).

Product details

Authors Alicja Jarz¿bska
Assisted by John Comber (Translation)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 13.02.2025
 
EAN 9783631864944
ISBN 978-3-631-86494-4
No. of pages 466
Dimensions 153 mm x 216 mm x 28 mm
Weight 708 g
Subject Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous

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