New Ears for New Music: Translated by Kenneth Chalmers

ISBN-13: 9783631633793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 232 str.

Constantin Floros; Kenneth Chalmers

Opis

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century s intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist and author Constantin Floros provides a survey of the different styles and tendencies in new music, presenting the most important composers from Schoenberg to Rihm in a series of fluent and readable essays that will appeal to connoisseurs and non-specialists alike. For Floros, music and biography are inseparable, and here he puts music in the context of the social and psychological background of its time."

Recenzje

«The chapter 'From Expressionism to Experimentation' provides a wonderful introduction to 20th-century musical trends. Utterly readable, the book makes music of the post-Mahler era accessible.» (Peter Kaiser, 2011)

Spis treści

Contents: From Expressionism to Experiment - Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School - The problem of «German Music» - Gurrelieder - Pierrot lunaire - Moses and Aron - Nikos Skalkottas - Luigi Nono - Messiaen and Boulez - Nationalism and Folklorism - György Ligeti - Multicultural Phenomena in the New Music - Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Alfred Schnittke - Hans Werner Henze - Wolfgang Rihm - Postmodernism.

O autorze

Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Hamburg and a prolific writer on diverse subjects. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, about Beethoven's Eroica, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg and György Ligeti.