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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454163603321

Autore

Kivy Peter

Titolo

Antithetical arts [[electronic resource] ] : on the ancient quarrel between literature and music / / Peter Kivy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-05345-0

9786612053450

0-19-156806-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Disciplina

780.08

781.17

Soggetti

Music and literature

Absolute music

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Contents; Part I: The Founding of Formalism; 1. First the Music, and Then the Words; 2. Designs À La Grecque; 3. Body and Soul; Part II: The Fortunes of Formalism; 4. Mood and Music; 5. Persona Non Grata; 6. Action and Agency; 7. Shostakovich's Secret?; Part III: The Fate of Formalism; 8. The Failure of Formalism and the Failure of its Foes; 9. Attention, Ritual, and the Additive Strategy; 10. Musical Morality; 11. Empty Pleasure to the Ear; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Peter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of understanding instrumental music. He argues against 'literary' interpretation in terms of representational or narrative content, and defends musical formalism. Along the way he discusses interpretations of a range of works in the canon of absolute music. - ;Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid