Australian Music And Modernism 1960 1975

Author : Michael Hooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501348204

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Australian Music and Modernism, 1960-1975 by Michael Hooper Pdf

Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and correspondence of the era, Australian Music and Modernism defines "Australian Music" as an idea that emerged through the lens of the modernist discourse of the 1960s and 70s. At the same time that the new "Australian Music" was distinctive of the nation, it was also thoroughly connected to practices from Europe and shaped by a new engagement with the music of Southeast Asia. This book examines the intersection of nationalism and modernism at this formative time. During the early stages of "Australian Music" there was disagreement about what the idea itself ought to represent and, indeed, whether the idea ought to apply at all. Michael Hooper considers various perspectives offered by such composers as Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Meale, and Nigel Butterley and analyzes some of the era's significant works to articulate a complex understanding of "Australian Music" at its inception.

Author : Rhoderick McNeill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000578621

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The Symphony in Australia, 1960-2020 by Rhoderick McNeill Pdf

The Symphony remained a major orchestral form in Australia between 1960 and 2020, with a body of diverse and interesting symphonies produced during the 1960s and 1970s that defied the widespread modernist trends of serialism, electronic music and indeterminism that seemed harbingers of the symphony’s demise. From the late 1970s onwards, many Australian composers chose to work in styles that admitted modal and tonal melodic and harmonic elements with regular pulse. Major cycles of symphonies by Carl Vine, Brenton Broadstock and Ross Edwards began to appear in the late 1980s. Other prolific symphonists like Paul Paviour (10 symphonies), David Morgan (15 symphonies), Philip Bracanin (11), Peter Tahourdin (5), John Polglase (5) and many others demonstrated a revived interest in the form. This trend continued into the first two decades of the present century with symphonies by Matthew Hindson, Katy Abbott, Stuart Greenbaum, Andrew Schultz, Mark Isaacs and Gordon Kerry. This renewed interest in the symphony reflects similar trends in Britain and the United States. Rhoderick McNeill provides a comprehensive introduction to this large body of music with the aim of making the music and its composers known to concert- goers, music educators and students, conductors and music entrepreneurs.

Author : Beatrice Dalov
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782847595

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The Sounds of Aurora Australis by Beatrice Dalov Pdf

Entrenched until recently in Western aesthetics, Australian composers are now developing a functional cultural identity expressed through a distinctly nationalistic musical idiom. Its ongoing formation, inspired by Australias Aboriginal heritage and unique natural environment, seeks to distance the nations artistic developments from the geographically remote Occidental regions and emphasize its native cultures. Presently, however, mounting sociopolitical and ethical concerns surrounding the cultural borrowing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are problematizing the developing nationalistic idiom, as composers must determine whether the two groups share any legitimate connection beyond mere occupation of the same land, given their tense post-colonial history. Musicologist Beatrice Dalov traces the formation of the Southern Lands cultural identity while simultaneously considering its complex relationship with the nations First Peoples. She illuminates the origins, influences, and developments of Australian art music, from colonization (late eighteenth century) to the present day, interweaving the social, cultural, political, and economic forces that shaped (and often determined) its evolution. The history demonstrates that the complex processes of articulating a unique cultural identity began almost immediately after arrival of the first colonists and continues uninterrupted through today. Drawing on newly available archival material, key works, and personally conducted interviews with numerous contemporary composers, Dalov traces the history of the lands music, from scattered convict settlements and eventful contacts with Aboriginal peoples, to the formation of a national musical infrastructure, to todays thriving musical independence. She brings forward not only the most prominent composers and musicians of the last century, but also those who laid a crucial foundation and offered the first contributions toward a national idiom. A comprehensive history of the music of the Great Southern Land has been too long neglected by social historians and musicologists worldwide. Beatrice Dalov sets the record straight.

Author : Björn Heile
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009491686

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Musical Modernism in Global Perspective by Björn Heile Pdf

In the first study of the global dimensions of musical modernism, Björn Heile proposes a novel theory according to which musical modernism is constituted by a global diasporic network of composers, musicians and institutions. In a series of historical and analytical case studies from different parts of the world, this book overcomes the respective limitations of both Eurocentric and postcolonial, revisionist accounts, focusing instead on the transnational entanglements between the West and other world regions. Key topics include migration, the transnational reception and transfer of musical works and ideas, institutions such as the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and composers who are rarely discussed in Western academia, such as the Nigerian-born Akin Euba and the Korean-German Younghi Pagh-Paan. Influenced by the interdisciplinary notion of 'entangled histories', Heile critiques established dichotomies, all the while highlighting the unequal power relations on which the existing global order is founded.

Author : Graham Hair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 187646335X

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Modernism in Australian Music, 1950-2000 by Graham Hair Pdf

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107127210

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Transformations of Musical Modernism by Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson Pdf

This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the composition, performance and reception of musical modernism.

Author : Ben Earle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521844031

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Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy by Ben Earle Pdf

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte ('Night Flight') and Il prigioniero ('The Prisoner'), and the choral Canti di prigionia ('Songs of Imprisonment'), setting them in the context of contemporary politics to trace their complex path from fascism to resistance. Earle also considers the wider relationship between musical modernism and Italian fascism, exploring the origins of musical modernism and investigating its place in the institutional structures created by Mussolini's regime. In doing so, he sheds new light on Dallapiccola's work and on the cultural politics of the early twentieth century to provide a history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siècle to the early Cold War.

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0860917851

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All that is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman Pdf

The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Author : Antony Jeffrey,Anthony Browell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0646816187

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Roland Peelman by Antony Jeffrey,Anthony Browell Pdf

Roland Peelman is a book of 225 x 225 dimensions with soft cover in full colour lavishly illustrated with photographs by Anthony Browell and other photographers, with text of approximately 22,000 words by Antony Jeffrey. The text comprises eight essays on different aspects of Roland Peelman's life and musical career, together with observations about him from twenty-five colleagues, friends and family members. Roland Peelman himself was born and educated in Belgium, emigrated to Australia with his wife and children in 1984 and has since become one of Australia's leading musicians and conductors. For twenty-five years he was Artistic Director of Australia's leading vocal ensemble The Song Company and since 2015 has been Artistic Director of the Canberra International Music Festival. He has conducted many orchestras and ensembles in Australia and overseas, including for Opera Australia, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Metropolitan Opera, Opera Queensland, Hunter Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring and many others.

Author : Philip Rupprecht,Philip Ernst Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521844482

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British Musical Modernism by Philip Rupprecht,Philip Ernst Rupprecht Pdf

The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.

Author : Roger Covell
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780734037831

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Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society (2nd ed.) by Roger Covell Pdf

Described on its first publication in 1967 as “a scholarly account of Australian music that is also entertaining social history”, Roger Covell’s Austrlaia’s Music: Themes of a New Society has become a classic of Australian music history for its beautifully written explorations of almost two hundred years of music-making across classical, Indigenous and Anglo-Celtic traditions. This revised edition, including more than sixty musical examples, is supplemented by a new postscript written by the author.

Author : Laura Hamer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108470285

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The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 by Laura Hamer Pdf

An overview of women's work in classical and popular music since 1900 as performers, composers, educators and music technologists.

Author : Larry Sitsky
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781921862410

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Australian Chamber Music with Piano by Larry Sitsky Pdf

This book represents the first critical survey of a section of a rich Australian corpus of chamber music. The author has included various instrumental combinations with piano as well as vocal music with piano. The survey is chronological, as well as by composer. An appendix to the work provides source material for future research into this area. The research has concentrated on progressive modernist music by Australian composers. The commentary utilizes the author's rich experience as composer, pianist and educator.

Author : Debra Bricker Balken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : ART
ISBN : 9780226036199

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Harold Rosenberg by Debra Bricker Balken Pdf

"The biography recounts Rosenberg's full story for the first time. Art critic for The New Yorker from 1962 until 1978, Rosenberg, together with Clement Greenberg, radically reshaped the interpretation of art in the post-World-War-II period by promoting and examining abstract expression. But Rosenberg was also a social and literary critic-writing about art was just one aspect of his work. Harold Rosenberg: A Critic's Life weaves together Rosenberg's life and literary production, cast against the dynamic intellectual and social ferment of his time. Rosenberg's mid-century linking of the New York School with the art establishment, together with his observations on the commodification of the artwork and the evisceration of the "self" in favor of celebrity (especially in his often-cited essay "The Herd of Independent Minds") make this book especially topical"--

Author : Georgina Born
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520916845

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Rationalizing Culture by Georgina Born Pdf

Anthropologist Georgina Born presents one of the first ethnographies of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. As a year-long participant-observer, Born studied the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music. She gives a unique portrait of IRCAM's composers, computer scientists, technicians, and secretaries, interrogating the effects of the cultural philosophy of the controversial avant-garde composer, Pierre Boulez, who directed the institute until 1992. Born depicts a major artistic institution trying to maintain its status and legitimacy in an era increasingly dominated by market forces, and in a volatile political and cultural climate. She illuminates the erosion of the legitimacy of art and science in the face of growing commercial and political pressures. By tracing how IRCAM has tried to accomodate these pressures while preserving its autonomy, Born reveals the contradictory effects of institutionalizing an avant-garde. Contrary to those who see postmodernism representing an accord between high and popular culture, Born stresses the continuities between modernism and postmodernism and how postmodernism itself embodies an implicit antagonism toward popular culture.