| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 197 pages) : illustrations |
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Ernest Bloch lectures |
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Ernest Bloch lectures.
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| Contents |
Setting the scene : grandiose symphonics and the trouble with art -- Pessimism, ecstasy and distant voices : listening to late-romanticism -- Sunsets, sunrises and decadent oceanics -- Making the world weep (more problems with opera) -- Late romanticism meets classical music at the movies -- The bitter truth of modernism : a late-romantic story |
| Summary |
Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period-Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini-regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic symphonies and operas steered a complex course between modernism and mass culture in the period leading up to the Second World War. The style's continuing popularity and its domination of the film music idiom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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Music
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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Musik
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Romantik
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Rezeption
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520958036 |
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0520958039 |
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9781306291408 |
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1306291402 |
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