Music and the modern condition [[electronic resource] ] : investigating the boundaries / / Ljubica Ilic

• Autore: Ilic Ljubica
• Pubblicazione: Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (132 p.)
• Disciplina: 780.9/03
• Soggetto topico: Modernism (Music); Music - 20th century - History and criticism; Music - 17th century - History and criticism; Music - Social aspects - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Introduction: The Limits of the Work, the Limits of the World; 1 Mirrors and Echoes: Beyond the Confines of Theatrical Space; 2 The Unutterable Silence: O Word, Thou Word that I Lack; 3 The Terror of Desire: Arbitrary Outcomes or the Dei ex Machinis; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides a fresh and close look at these moments, exploring the ways musical compositions shift to and away from ideological structures identified with modernity. The focus is on European art music whose grand narrative, defined by tonality and teleological development, begins in the seventeenth century and ends with twentieth-century modernisms. Seeing musical storytelling as a metaphoric represe
• Titolo autorizzato: Music and the modern condition
• ISBN: 1-317-09232-5; 1-317-09231-7; 1-282-77411-5; 9786612774119; 1-4094-1824-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459905603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II