British Musical Modernism

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351573016

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British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 by Matthew Riley Pdf

Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization.

Author : Philip Rupprecht,Philip Ernst Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Barry J. Faulk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317171522

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British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 by Barry J. Faulk Pdf

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating the traditional forms of Victorian music hall. Faulk focuses on the mid to late 1960s, when British rock bands who had already achieved commercial prominence began to aspire to aesthetic distinction. The book discusses recordings such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album, the Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society, and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and television films such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus that defined rock's early high art moment. Faulk argues that these 'texts' disclose the primary strategies by which British rock groups, mostly comprised of young working and lower middle-class men, made their bid for aesthetic merit by sampling music hall sounds. The result was a symbolically charged form whose main purpose was to unsettle the hierarchy that set traditional popular culture above the new medium. Rock groups engaged with the music of the past in order both to demonstrate the comparative vitality of the new form and signify rock's new art status, compared to earlier British pop music. The book historicizes punk rock as a later development of earlier British rock, rather than a rupture. Unlike earlier groups, the Sex Pistols did not appropriate music hall form in an ironic way, but the band and their manager Malcolm McLaren were obsessed with the meaning of the past for the present in a distinctly modernist fashion.

Author : Matthew Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351573009

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"British Music and Modernism, 1895?960 " by Matthew Riley Pdf

Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization.

Author : Erling E. Guldbrandsen,Julian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Sarah Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781108481496

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Lateness and Modernism by Sarah Collins Pdf

Examines the role of musical figures within 'late modernism', presenting a new understanding of the politics and aesthetics of lateness.

Author : Björn Heile,Charles Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317042457

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The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music by Björn Heile,Charles Wilson Pdf

Modernism in music still arouses passions and is riven by controversies. Taking root in the early decades of the twentieth century, it achieved ideological dominance for almost three decades following the Second World War, before becoming the object of widespread critique in the last two decades of the century, both from critics and composers of a postmodern persuasion and from prominent scholars associated with the ‘new musicology’. Yet these critiques have failed to dampen its ongoing resilience. The picture of modernism has considerably broadened and diversified, and has remained a pivotal focus of debate well into the twenty-first century. This Research Companion does not seek to limit what musical modernism might be. At the same time, it resists any dilution of the term that would see its indiscriminate application to practically any and all music of a certain period. In addition to addressing issues already well established in modernist studies such as aesthetics, history, institutions, place, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, production and performance, communication technologies and the interface with postmodernism, this volume also explores topics that are less established; among them: modernism and affect, modernism and comedy, modernism versus the ‘contemporary’, and the crucial distinction between modernism in popular culture and a ‘popular modernism’, a modernism of the people. In doing so, this text seeks to define modernism in music by probing its margins as much as by restating its supposed essence.

Author : Suzanne Robinson,Kay Dreyfus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317125013

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Grainger the Modernist by Suzanne Robinson,Kay Dreyfus Pdf

Unaccountably, Percy Grainger has remained on the margins of both American music history and twentieth-century modernism. This volume reveals the well-known composer of popular gems to be a self-described ’hyper-modernist’ who composed works of uncompromising dissonance, challenged the conventions of folk song collection and adaptation, re-visioned the modern orchestra, experimented with ’ego-less’ composition and designed electronic machines intended to supersede human application. Grainger was far from being a self-sufficient maverick working in isolation. Through contact with innovators such as Ferrucio Busoni, Léon Theremin and Henry Cowell; promotion of the music of modern French and Spanish schools; appreciation of vernacular, jazz and folk musics; as well as with the study and transcription of non-Western music; he contested received ideas and proposed many radical new approaches. By reappraising Grainger’s social and historical connectedness and exploring the variety of aspects of modernity seen in his activities in the British, American and Australian contexts, the authors create a profile of a composer, propagandist and visionary whose modernist aesthetic paralleled that of the most advanced composers of his day, and, in some cases, anticipated their practical experiments.

Author : J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139560245

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The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism by J. P. E. Harper-Scott Pdf

Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism, yet some American critics consider it elitist, undemocratic and even unnatural. Drawing extensively on the philosophy of Heidegger and Badiou, The Quilting Points of Musical Modernism proposes a new dialectical theory of faithful, reactive and obscure subjective responses to musical modernism, which embraces all the music of Western modernity. This systematic definition of musical modernism introduces readers to theory by Badiou, Žižek and Agamben. Basing his analyses on the music of William Walton, Harper-Scott explores connections between the revolutionary politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and responses to the event of modernism in order to challenge accepted narratives of music history in the twentieth century.

Author : Joanna Louise Bullivant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Composers
ISBN : OCLC:632079471

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Musical Modernism and Left-wing Politics in 1930s Britain by Joanna Louise Bullivant Pdf

Author : Barry J. Faulk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317171515

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British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 by Barry J. Faulk Pdf

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating the traditional forms of Victorian music hall. Faulk focuses on the mid to late 1960s, when British rock bands who had already achieved commercial prominence began to aspire to aesthetic distinction. The book discusses recordings such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album, the Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society, and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and television films such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus that defined rock's early high art moment. Faulk argues that these 'texts' disclose the primary strategies by which British rock groups, mostly comprised of young working and lower middle-class men, made their bid for aesthetic merit by sampling music hall sounds. The result was a symbolically charged form whose main purpose was to unsettle the hierarchy that set traditional popular culture above the new medium. Rock groups engaged with the music of the past in order both to demonstrate the comparative vitality of the new form and signify rock's new art status, compared to earlier British pop music. The book historicizes punk rock as a later development of earlier British rock, rather than a rupture. Unlike earlier groups, the Sex Pistols did not appropriate music hall form in an ironic way, but the band and their manager Malcolm McLaren were obsessed with the meaning of the past for the present in a distinctly modernist fashion.

Author : Karol Berger,Anthony Newcomb
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015061451574

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Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Karol Berger,Anthony Newcomb Pdf

This book encourages a debate over musical modernity; a debate considering the question whether an examination of the history of European art music may enrich our picture of modernity and whether our understanding of music's development may be transformed by insights into the nature of modernity provided by other historical disciplines.

Author : Jill Halstead
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754601781

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Ruth Gipps by Jill Halstead Pdf

When Ruth Gipps died in 1999, her legacy was as one of Britain's most prolific female composers. Gipps's talents were acknowledged but not always respected and she was a figure often dogged by controversy. In the first major review of her life and work the importance of Ruth Gipps is established in two ways: first, as a pioneering woman composer and conductor whose work challenged prevailing attitudes in the era directly after the war and second, as a composer whose musical philosophy was often at odds with mainstream thinking. Although she was branded a reactionary, her position reveals a number of important counter currents in English musical life in the twentieth century.

Author : Mary Ann Gillies
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773566132

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Henri Bergson and British Modernism by Mary Ann Gillies Pdf

Focusing on the work of T.E. Hulme, the Men of 1914, the Bloomsbury Group, T.S. Eliot, and John Middleton Murry, Gillies convincingly demonstrates that Bergson's theories underlie the literary aesthetics of the period that forms the intellectual basis of modern literature. She then turns her critical eye to five major modernist writers - T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, and Joseph Conrad - and provides insightful and detailed Bergsonian readings of their major works. Drawing on material not previously available, Gillies persuasively argues that Bergson was a major intellectual force in British literature during the first thirty years of the twentieth century.

Author : Anne Witchard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748690978

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British Modernism and Chinoiserie by Anne Witchard Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.