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100 1 a| Crawford, John C.q| (John Charlton),d| 1931-2012.=| ^A325587;

245 10 a| Expressionism in twentieth-century music /c| John C. Crawford and Dorothy L. Crawford.;

300 a| xv, 331 pages, 4 pages of plates :b| illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music, portraits ;c| 25 cm;

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337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| Idealism, rebellion against complacency, and an urgent need for new linguistic power with which to transcend their sense of spiritual crisis were characteristics common to expressionist painters, poets, and dramatists as well as to composers. Indeed, these individuals were frequently active in several fields. This book explores expressionism in music in relation to the same movement in other creative arts. This humanist approach to music written in the first quarter of the twentieth century considers the biographical, cultural, and societal context in which these compositions were conceived and explores the psychological imperatives at the root of individual composers' innovations. The authors point out influential expressionist tendencies in Wagner, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Scriabin, and Mussorgsky, all of whom prepared the ground as forerunners to musical expressionism. The authors examine strongly expressionist traits in the works not only of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern but also of Bartok, Stravinsky, Ives, and a "second generation"--Hindemith, Krenek, and Weill; and they find a legacy of expressionism in such composers as Ruggles and Shostakovich and in other iconoclasts still living. In its interdisciplinary approach, the book is generously provided with musical analyses and excerpts from major expressionist compositions, examples of contemporaneous poetry (some of it written by the composers themselves), and reproductions of striking art works by Kandinsky, Marc, Kokoschka, Klimt, and Nolde, among others. A chapter is devoted to synthesis of the arts, which was uniquely important to expressionist composers. This book demonstrates the interdependence of the arts in the twentieth century and makes a challenging body of music more accessible and meaningful to students, composers, and musicologists.;

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Expressionism in twentieth-century music / John C. Crawford and Dorothy L. Crawford.

Author/creator	Crawford, John C.
Other author	Crawford, Dorothy L.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1993.
Description	xv, 331 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects	Expressionism (Music)

Contents	Twentieth-century expressionism: its nature, background, and language -- Forefunners I: Wagner and Strauss -- Forerunners II: Mahler and Scriabin -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Anton Webern -- Alban Berg -- The problem of expressionism in Stravinsky -- Bela Bartok -- Charles Ives -- Synthesis of the arts -- The legacy of expressionism.
Abstract	Idealism, rebellion against complacency, and an urgent need for new linguistic power with which to transcend their sense of spiritual crisis were characteristics common to expressionist painters, poets, and dramatists as well as to composers. Indeed, these individuals were frequently active in several fields. This book explores expressionism in music in relation to the same movement in other creative arts. This humanist approach to music written in the first quarter of the twentieth century considers the biographical, cultural, and societal context in which these compositions were conceived and explores the psychological imperatives at the root of individual composers' innovations. The authors point out influential expressionist tendencies in Wagner, Richard Strauss, Mahler, Scriabin, and Mussorgsky, all of whom prepared the ground as forerunners to musical expressionism. The authors examine strongly expressionist traits in the works not only of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern but also of Bartok, Stravinsky, Ives, and a "second generation"--Hindemith, Krenek, and Weill; and they find a legacy of expressionism in such composers as Ruggles and Shostakovich and in other iconoclasts still living. In its interdisciplinary approach, the book is generously provided with musical analyses and excerpts from major expressionist compositions, examples of contemporaneous poetry (some of it written by the composers themselves), and reproductions of striking art works by Kandinsky, Marc, Kokoschka, Klimt, and Nolde, among others. A chapter is devoted to synthesis of the arts, which was uniquely important to expressionist composers. This book demonstrates the interdependence of the arts in the twentieth century and makes a challenging body of music more accessible and meaningful to students, composers, and musicologists.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	92035291
ISBN	0253314739

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