Representation in western music
edited by Joshua S. Walden.
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge, England : : Cambridge University Press, , c2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (334 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Includes index.. - Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Notes; Part I Representation and the interpretation of musical meaning; 1 Layers of representation in nineteenth-century genres: the case of one Brahms ballade; Notes; 2 `As a stranger give it welcome ́: musical meanings in 1830s London; Notes; 3 `Music is obscure ́: textless Soviet works and their phantom programmes; I The origins of the Soviet phantom programme; II The licence of war: representation in Soviet music, 1941-1948; III The game exposed; Notes; 4: Representing Arlen; I; II; III; IV; V; Appendix; Notes. - 5 Video cultures: `Bohemian Rhapsody ́, Wayne ́s World, and beyondRepresenting music; Musical representation; Beyond representation; Notes; Part II Sound and visual representations: music, painting, and dance; 6 `On wings of song ́: representing music as agency in nineteenth-century culture; Representing music: from allegory to `agency ́?; `On wings of song ́: transporting the listening subject; Music and the `redemptive tableau ́; Orpheus, Beethoven, Schumann and the Fata Morgana of `the Music Itself ́; Notes; 7 Representation and musical portraiture in the twentieth century. - Introducing a film ́s `topics ́The beginning as a `set-up ́; Film music and the `aesthetics of the hindsight ́; Learning to fear the shark; From reference to embodiment; Notes; 12 Self-representation in music: the case of Hindemith ́s meta-opera Cardillac; I; II; Notes; Part IV Music, representation, and the concepts of East and West; 13 Doing more than representing western music; Representation and excessive feeling; Representation and embodiment; Notes; 14 The persistence of Orientalism in the postmodern operas of Adams and Sellars; Getting over Orientalism?. - John Adams and Peter Sellars as postmodern multiculturalistsAre the Chinese exotic in Nixon in China?; The magical multicultural mélange of A Flowering Tree; Glamorous and unglamorous exoticism in The Death of Klinghoffer; Native song and dance in Doctor Atomic; Adams and Sellars critiquing the Orientalist critique; Notes; Afterword: What else; I; II; III; IV; Notes; Index. - Philip Glass ́s `A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close ́Ligeti ́s `Selbstportrait ́; Coda: Virgil Thomson ́s `Buffie Johnson ́, in conclusion; Notes; 8 Representational conundrums: music and early modern dance; Jean d ́Udine, L ́Art et le geste; Loie Fuller, l ́enchanteresse; Valentine de Saint-Point, La Métachorie; L ́Union parfaite (conclusion); Notes; Part III Musical representations in opera and cinema; 9 Allusive representations: homoerotics in Wagner ́s Tristan; Notes; 10 Der Dichter spricht: self-representation in Parsifal; 1; 2; 3; 4; Notes; 11 Memory and the leitmotif in cinema. - This volume assembles leading scholars to provide a comprehensive study of representation in music from the nineteenth century to today.
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| ISBN | 9781107021570
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