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Music and Decadence in European Modernism
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Music and Decadence in European Modernism Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Stephen Downes


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Decadence is a crucial yet often misunderstood aspect of European modernism. This book demonstrates how decadence as an idea, style or topic informs Central and Eastern European music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Combining close analysis with hermeneutic interpretation and cultural critique, Stephen Downes examines works by composers including Wagner, Richard Strauss, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Mahler and Bartk, considering structural and expressive forms of decay, deformation, mannerism, nihilism, sickness and convalescence. Drawing upon critical and cultural theory, these musical works are contextualized, relating the relationship of music and musical discourse to wider cultural discourses. The study will enhance the understanding of musical forms and aesthetics for the reader. Exploring crucial aspects of modernism and the place of music in the development and diversity of decadence, Downes refines and redefines our understanding of musical modernism.

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  • Title Music and Decadence in European Modernism
  • Author Stephen Downes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 386
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2010-06-03
  • ISBN 9780521767576 / 0521767571
  • Weight 2.05 lbs (0.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.9 in (24.89 x 17.53 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Music - Europe, Central - 20th century -, Music - Europe, Eastern - 20th century -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009050501
  • Dewey Decimal Code 780.903
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