The Music of Pavel Haas: Analytical and Hermeneutical Studies

ISBN-13: 9781032235622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 282 str.

Martin Čurda

Opis

This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Pavel Haas's music since the publication of Lubomír Peduzzi's 'life and work' monograph in 1993.

Spis treści

Introduction

1: Music and Avant-Garde Discourse in Inter-War Czechoslovakia

2: From the Monkey Mountains: The Body, the Grotesque, and Carnival

3: Suite for Piano, Op. 13 (1935): Neoclassical Tendencies

4: Rhythmic Layers and Musical Form: Janácekian Elements in Haas’s Compositional Practice
5: Haas’s Charlatan: A Tragi-Comedy about Old Comedians, Modern Individualists, and Uncanny Doubles

6: Four Songs on Chinese Poetry: Grief, Melancholy, Uncanny Reflections, and Vicious Circles in Songs from Terezín
Conclusion

Bibliography

General Bibliography

Newspaper Reviews and Articles

Archival Documents (Pavel Haas)

Musical Editions

O autorze

Martin Curda completed his Ph.D. studies at Cardiff University, School of Music in 2017. He is currently employed as a lecturer in musicology at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music of the University of Ostrava (Czech Republic), teaching courses related to music analysis and semiotics, music history since 1900, and performance practice. His research into the music of Pavel Haas has so far led to the publication of several journal articles and book chapters, as well as to the organisation of the first international academic conference focusing specifically on this composer (Pavel Haas Study Day, 2016). His research combines musical-analytical methods with hermeneutic enquiry rooted in semiotics, cultural critique, and discourse analysis, revealing the interaction of music, culture and politics.