Music and narrative since 1900 / edited by Michael L. Klein and Nicholas Reyland.

Other author Klein, Michael Leslie, editor.
Other author Reyland, Nicholas W., editor.
Format Book
PublicationBloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Descriptionxx, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMusical meaning & interpretation
Musical meaning and interpretation. ^A589150
Contents Musical story / Michael L. Klein -- Negation and negotiation: plotting narrative through literature and music from modernism to postmodernism / Nicholas Reyland -- Narrative engagement with twentieth-century music: possibilities and limits / Byron Almén and Robert S. Hatten -- Optional extra?: contextualizing narrative in the critical interpretation of post-tonal composition / Arnold Whittall -- Archetypes of initiation and static temporality in contemporary opera: works of François-Bernard Mâche, Pascal Dusapin, and Gualtiero Dazzi / Márta Grabócz -- Agency, determinism, focal time frames, and processive minimalist music / Joshua Banks Mailman -- Musical prose and musical narrativity in the Fin de siècle / Elisheva Rigbi -- Narrative nostalgia: modern art music off the rails / Lawrence Kramer -- Agency effects in the instrumental drama of Musgrave and Birtwistle / Philip Rupprecht -- Narrativities in the music of Thomas Adès: the piano quintet and Brahms / Emma Gallon -- Britten's Serenade and the politico-moral crises of the wartime conjuncture: hermeneutic and narrative notes on the "Nocturne" / Sumanth Gopinath -- Identity, time, and narrative in three songs about AIDS by the Pet Shop Boys / Fred Everett Maus -- A story of violence: a guitar improvisation as a narrative about embodied listening / Vincent Meelberg -- Ives and the now / Matthew McDonald -- Narrativity, descriptivity, and secondary parameters: ecstasy enacted in Salvatore Sciarrino's Infinito nero / Rebecca Leydon -- The tropes of desire and Jouissance in Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin / Yayoi Uno Everett -- Expressive doubling and the narrative of rebirth in Shostakovich's String quartet no. 3, op. 73 / Sarah Reichardt Ellis -- Afterlife of an archetype: Prokofiev and the art of subversion / Gregory Karl -- Identity formation in Webern's Six pieces for large orchestra, op. 6 / Alan Street.
Abstract This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century. Contributors challenge the broadly held opinion that the loss of tonality in some music after 1900 also meant the loss of narrative in that music. To the contrary, the editors and essayists in this book demonstrate how experiments in approaching narrative in other media, such as fiction and cinema, suggested fresh possibilities for musical narrative, which composers were quick to exploit. The new conceptions of time, narrative voice, plot, and character that accompanied these experiments also had a significant impact on contemporary music. The repertoire explored in the collection ranges across a wide variety of genres and includes composers from Charles Ives and the Pet Shop Boys to Thomas Adès and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012025523
ISBN9780253006448 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0253006449 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Standard identifier# 40021683386

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Music Music Stacks ML3849 .M933 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold