The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Taruskin |
Autore | Taruskin Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (508 p.) |
Disciplina | 780.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Musical criticism
Music trade |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century art criticism
21st century music criticism aesthetics anti utopian thought art post 9/11 arts bach beethoven boris goudenow career classical music colonialism contemporary composition contemporary performance critics ethics ezra pound hindemith legacy historians lifetime modernism music musicology nationalism nature optimism performance political art politics public musicologist pundits sterility stravinsky terrorist attacks teutonic train wreck the new york times wagner |
ISBN |
1-282-36081-7
9786612360817 0-520-94279-5 |
Classificazione | LR 56800 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Against Utopia -- 1. Et in Arcadia Ego Or, I Didn't Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing -- 2. Only Time Will Cover the Taint -- 3. "Nationalism": Colonialism in Disguise? -- 4. Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? -- 5. Optimism amid the Rubble -- 6. A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck -- 7. Does Nature Call the Tune? -- 8. Two Stabs at the Universe -- 9. In Search of the "Good" Hindemith Legacy -- 10. Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection -- 11. A Beethoven Season? -- 12. Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist -- 13. How Talented Composers Become Useless -- 14. Making a Stand against Sterility -- 15. A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century -- 16. Calling All Pundits: No More Predictions! -- 17. In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All -- 18. Markevitch as Icarus -- 19. Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers -- 20. Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last? -- 21. Bartók and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited? -- 22. Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party -- 23. A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism -- 24. Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks -- 25. Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? -- 26. The Danger of Music and the Case for Control -- 27. Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality -- 28. Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart -- 29. Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late -- 30. The First Modernist -- 31. The Dark Side of the Moon -- 32. Of Kings and Divas -- 33. The Golden Age of Kitsch -- 34. No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage -- 35. Sacred Entertainments -- 36. The Poietic Fallacy -- 37. The Musical Mystique: Defending Classical Music against Its Devotees -- 38. Revising Revision -- 39. Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology -- 40. She Do the Ring in Different Voices -- 41. Stravinsky and Us -- 42. Setting Limits (a talk) -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777952803321 |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
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The danger of music and other anti-utopian essays [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Taruskin |
Autore | Taruskin Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (508 p.) |
Disciplina | 780.9 |
Soggetto topico |
Musical criticism
Music trade |
Soggetto non controllato |
21st century art criticism
21st century music criticism aesthetics anti utopian thought art post 9/11 arts bach beethoven boris goudenow career classical music colonialism contemporary composition contemporary performance critics ethics ezra pound hindemith legacy historians lifetime modernism music musicology nationalism nature optimism performance political art politics public musicologist pundits sterility stravinsky terrorist attacks teutonic train wreck the new york times wagner |
ISBN |
1-282-36081-7
9786612360817 0-520-94279-5 |
Classificazione | LR 56800 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Against Utopia -- 1. Et in Arcadia Ego Or, I Didn't Know I Was Such a Pessimist until I Wrote This Thing -- 2. Only Time Will Cover the Taint -- 3. "Nationalism": Colonialism in Disguise? -- 4. Why Do They All Hate Horowitz? -- 5. Optimism amid the Rubble -- 6. A Survivor from the Teutonic Train Wreck -- 7. Does Nature Call the Tune? -- 8. Two Stabs at the Universe -- 9. In Search of the "Good" Hindemith Legacy -- 10. Six Times Six: A Bach Suite Selection -- 11. A Beethoven Season? -- 12. Dispelling the Contagious Wagnerian Mist -- 13. How Talented Composers Become Useless -- 14. Making a Stand against Sterility -- 15. A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the Twenty-first Century -- 16. Calling All Pundits: No More Predictions! -- 17. In The Rake's Progress, Love Conquers (Almost) All -- 18. Markevitch as Icarus -- 19. Let's Rescue Poor Schumann from His Rescuers -- 20. Early Music: Truly Old-Fashioned at Last? -- 21. Bartók and Stravinsky: Odd Couple Reunited? -- 22. Wagner's Antichrist Crashes a Pagan Party -- 23. A Surrealist Composer Comes to the Rescue of Modernism -- 24. Corraling a Herd of Musical Mavericks -- 25. Can We Give Poor Orff a Pass at Last? -- 26. The Danger of Music and the Case for Control -- 27. Ezra Pound: A Slim Sound Claim to Musical Immortality -- 28. Underneath the Dissonance Beat a Brahmsian Heart -- 29. Enter Boris Goudenow, Just 295 Years Late -- 30. The First Modernist -- 31. The Dark Side of the Moon -- 32. Of Kings and Divas -- 33. The Golden Age of Kitsch -- 34. No Ear for Music: The Scary Purity of John Cage -- 35. Sacred Entertainments -- 36. The Poietic Fallacy -- 37. The Musical Mystique: Defending Classical Music against Its Devotees -- 38. Revising Revision -- 39. Back to Whom? Neoclassicism as Ideology -- 40. She Do the Ring in Different Voices -- 41. Stravinsky and Us -- 42. Setting Limits (a talk) -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809072003321 |
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Reflections of an American composer [[electronic resource] /] / Arthur Berger |
Autore | Berger Arthur <1912-2003.> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina | 780/.973 |
Soggetto topico | Music - United States - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
1930s
20th century aaron copland american composers american music art scene autobiography avant garde music biography boretz boston communism composers conductor essays malkin conservatory memoir modernism music composition music criticism music history music theory music musicians nationalism new york nonfiction piano variations popular culture red scare schoenberg short symphony statements stravinsky wpa |
ISBN |
1-59734-857-0
0-520-92821-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Composers and Their Audience in the Thirties -- 2. Nationalism -- 3. Is Music in Decline? -- 4. Rendezvous with Apollo: Form Is Feeling -- 5. Reinventing the Past: Pastiche, Collage, or "Criticism"? -- 6. Serialism: Composer as Theorist -- 7. Rapprochement or Friendly Takeover? -- 8. Postmodern Music -- 9. Virgil Thomson and the Press -- 10. Music on My Beat -- 11. PNM and the Ph.D. -- 12. A Tale of Two Critics: Rosenfeld and Haggin -- 13. Do We Hear What We Say We Hear? -- 14. New Linguistic Modes and the New Theory -- 15. The Octatonic Scale -- 16. Backstage at the Opera -- 17. A Tale of Two Conductors: Koussevitzky and Mitropoulos -- 18. From My Diary: Brief Encounters -- Appendix: From My Scrapbook -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449685403321 |
Berger Arthur <1912-2003.>
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Russian opera and the symbolist movement [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Morrison |
Autore | Morrison Simon Alexander <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 782.1/092/247 |
Collana | California studies in 20th-century music |
Soggetto topico |
Opera - Russia (Federation) - 20th century
Symbolism (Literary movement) - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
canonical composers
drama fiery angel fin de siecle legend of the invisible city of kitezh libretto maiden fevroniya miracles music history music interpretation music theory music musicology mysterium opera operatic innovation performance performing arts poetics prokofiev queen of spades rimsky korsakov russian music russian opera scriabin silver age spectacle stravinsky supernatural russian music supernatural symbolist movement syncretism tchaikovsky theater theurgy translation |
ISBN |
0-520-92726-5
1-59734-881-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chaikovsky and decadence -- Rimsky-Korsakov and religious syncretism -- Scriabin and theurgy -- Prokofiev and mimesis. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780079103321 |
Morrison Simon Alexander <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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Russian opera and the symbolist movement [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Morrison |
Autore | Morrison Simon Alexander <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 782.1/092/247 |
Collana | California studies in 20th-century music |
Soggetto topico |
Opera - Russia (Federation) - 20th century
Symbolism (Literary movement) - Russia (Federation) - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
canonical composers
drama fiery angel fin de siecle legend of the invisible city of kitezh libretto maiden fevroniya miracles music history music interpretation music theory music musicology mysterium opera operatic innovation performance performing arts poetics prokofiev queen of spades rimsky korsakov russian music russian opera scriabin silver age spectacle stravinsky supernatural russian music supernatural symbolist movement syncretism tchaikovsky theater theurgy translation |
ISBN |
0-520-92726-5
1-59734-881-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chaikovsky and decadence -- Rimsky-Korsakov and religious syncretism -- Scriabin and theurgy -- Prokofiev and mimesis. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828681703321 |
Morrison Simon Alexander <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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