Music's monisms disarticulating modernism / Daniel Albright ; with a foreword by Alexander Rehding.
| Author/creator | Albright, Daniel |
| Other author | Rehding, Alexander. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| Description | xiv, 298 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Thesis -- Wagner's Names -- Maeterlinck's Modernisms : Debussy and Dukas -- Britten's Dismantlings : Les illuminations and the War Requiem -- Schoenberg's Shatterings -- Stravinsky's Nightingales. |
| Abstract | "The late Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passing. In the essays contained in Music's Monisms, he shows how musical phenomena, like literary ones, can be fruitfully investigated through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one. Albright shows how, in music, despite its many binaries-diatonic vs. chromatic, staccato vs. legato, major vs. minor, tonal vs. atonal-there is always a larger system at work that aims to reconcile all tension and resolve all conflict. Albright identifies a "radical monism" in the work of modernist poets such as T. S. Eliot and musical works by Wagner, Debussy, Britten, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, and also delves into figures such as Maeterlinck, Rimbaud, and Yeats along the way. Through a series of close readings of musical and literary works, Albright advances powerful philosophical arguments that not only shed light on these specific figures but also aesthetic experience in general"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021012765 |
| ISBN | 9780226791227 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |