Rethinking Dvořák : views from five countries / edited by David R. Beveridge.
| Other author | Beveridge, David R., editor. |
| Other author | Dvořák Sesquicentennial Conference and Festival in America (1991 : University of New Orleans) |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. |
| Description | xi, 305 pages, 7 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Metamorphoses of Dvorak's image in the course of time / Jarmil Burghauser -- The unknown Dvorak: a mini-symposium on the early song cycle, Cypresses -- Cypresses: an appreciation, and a summary of editorial problems on the eve of its first publication / Miroslav Novy -- Texts to Cypresses, with English translation by David R. Beveridge / Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky -- Dvorak's first songs: some insights into Cypresses / Klaus Doge -- Cypresses: a song cycle and its metamorphoses / Jan Smaczny -- The unknown Dvorak: operas. From the Vistula to the Danube by way of the Vltava: Dvorak's Vanda in Vienna / Alan Houtchens -- Vanda and Armida, a grand-operatic sisterhood / Jan Smaczny -- Dvorak's Dimitrij - a challenge to editors / Milan Pospisil -- Rusalka and its librettist, Jaroslav Kvapil: some new directions / Marketa Hallova -- Dvorak as a Czech composer. Dvorak and the meaning of nationalism in music / Leon Plantinga -- The 'Dvorak battles' in Bohemia: Czech criticism of Antonin Dvorak, 1911-15 / Marta Ottlova -- Dvorak in the view of the artist: portraits by his contemporaries, and his portrayal in the patriotic mural Czech Spring / Jaroslava Dobrincic -- Dvorak as a Slavic composer. Dvorak's Slavic spirit and his relation to Tchaikovsky and Russia / Milan Kuna -- Dvorak's eighth symphony: a response to Tchaikovsky? / Hartmut Schick -- Dvorak as a European composer. Dvorak's contribution to progressive trends in the European symphony, 1865-95 / Miroslav K. Czerny -- Dvorak's early symphonies in the context of European symphonic writing of the mid-nineteenth century / Jarmila Gabrielova -- Schubertian tonal plans reinterpreted: Dvorak's 'shadow-key' sonata forms / John K. Novak -- The 'uncomfortable' Dvorak: critical reactions to the first performances of his symphonic poems in German-speaking lands / Karin Stockl-Steinebrunner -- Music and words in Dvorak's symphonic works: a Nietzschean perspective on the 'New world' symphony and The Wild Dove / David M. Schiller -- Dvorak and Elgar / Graham Melville-Mason -- The impact of America on Dvorak. Dvorak among the Yankees: George Chadwick and the impact of the Boston school / Mark Germer -- Dvorak's pentatonic landscape: the suite in A major / Michael Beckerman -- The impact of Dvorak on America. Dvorak and the historiography of American music / Richard Crawford -- Dvorak and his black students / Thomas L. Riis -- Dvorak, nationalism, myth, and racism in the United States / Charles Hamm -- Appendix. Dvorak's interviews with British newspapers with critical commentary / David R. Beveridge. |
| Abstract | The Czech composer Antonin Dvorak has recently received special attention from scholars thanks to the changed political climate in his native land and shifting currents of musical reception. This book provides a forum for studies of Dvorak by experts worldwide, including many from the Czech Republic who have never before published in English. The 24 essays offer penetrating insights into Dvorak's personality, his place in history, and the sheer beauty of his music. How this music was received and appreciated is a subject of special focus, offering explanations as to why, despite the composer's popularity, some of his greatest compositions have remained unknown. The book rejects the image of Dvorak as important mainly for Czech nationalism; while not neglecting this subject, it also addresses his ties to the broader family of Slavonic nations, to the overall context of European music, and to the United States. |
| General note | The majority of the essays in this volume were engendered by the Dvořák Sesquicentennial Conference and Festival in America (New Orleans, 1991). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 95002440 |
| ISBN | 0198164114 (acid-free paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.D99 R48 1996 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |