Music and decadence in European modernism
| Titel: | Music and decadence in European modernism : the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Stephen Downes |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 371 S. : Notenbeisp. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780521767576 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- List of examples
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. xii
- 1
- Decadence, music and the map of European modernism
- p. 1
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Music and decadence
- p. 5
- Defining and defending decadence
- p. 29
- The sources and styles of modern decadence
- p. 36
- Themes of decadence in Central and Eastern Europe
- p. 44
- 2
- Pessimism and nihilism
- p. 63
- Introduction
- p. 63
- Nietzsche's symptoms of decadence: Turgenev, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer
- p. 66
- Musical pessimism: Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Strauss
- p. 73
- Dionysus debilitated: the symphonic poems of Karlowicz
- p. 84
- Divergent Russian decadents: Rachmaninov, Scriabin and the end
- p. 97
- Bartók's elegiac modernism
- p. 113
- 3
- Degeneration and regeneration
- p. 126
- Introduction
- p. 126
- Brünnhilde's double end
- p. 134
- Salome's double end
- p. 154
- The double Elektra
- p. 163
- 4
- Deformation and dissolution
- p. 174
- Introduction
- p. 174
- Romantic wave form and energetics
- p. 175
- Intensification and dissolution: a wave deformation in Strauss's Salome
- p. 186
- Resisting decadence: the finale of Mahler's Sixth Symphony
- p. 194
- Berg's Op.1 and the emaciation of dissonance
- p. 203
- Artificial waves: the Count's ballad from Schreker's Der ferne Klang
- p. 213
- 5
- Mannerism and avant-garde
- p. 224
- Introduction
- p. 224
- Russian miniaturism: Scriabin, Lyadov and the Chopinesque
- p. 226
- Strauss and mannerism: Der Rosenkavalier
- p. 237
- Decadence and avant-garde: extremes touch
- p. 245
- Strauss as decadent and avant-gardist
- p. 251
- Hearing decadence in Schoenberg
- p. 258
- 6
- Convalescence and primitivism
- p. 279
- Introduction
- p. 279
- Nietzsche contra Schumann? The convalescent philosopher-composer
- p. 282
- Wagnerian agony and Wolf's leading-note treatment
- p. 299
- Szymanowski, pain and recovery: the rehabilitation of Chopin and Dionysian regeneration
- p. 312
- Bibliography
- p. 332
- Index
- p. 361
