Ligeti, Kurtág, and Hungarian Music during the Cold War

Titel: Ligeti, Kurtág, and Hungarian Music during the Cold War / Rachel Beckles Willson
Verfasser:
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ˜[u.a.]œ : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007
Umfang: XVII, 282 S. : Abb., Notenbeisp.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Music in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 0521827337
  • List of music examples
  • p. xi
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xiii
  • Note on the text
  • p. xvi
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • 1
  • After 1920: on land, language and music
  • p. 13
  • 2
  • After 1945: a new empire forms
  • p. 26
  • Institutional transformations
  • p. 27
  • Discourses about music: an overview
  • p. 31
  • 1945-1948
  • After 1949
  • Specific discourses and their musics
  • p. 42
  • Music for children
  • Music for worship
  • Instrumental music (Music without language?)
  • Pormalism
  • Silences
  • p. 59
  • Public silence
  • Private silence (music and language reconsidered)
  • Part II
  • 3
  • After 1956: the parting of ways
  • p. 77
  • Hungarian contexts
  • p. 78
  • Budapest
  • Kurtag, at home
  • Ligeti, escaped
  • Juxtapositions
  • p. 92
  • Language as music
  • Language in music
  • Music as 'language' (Darkness and Light)
  • Hungarian contexts revisited
  • p. 115
  • Ligeti as longing
  • Kurtag as object of longing
  • 4
  • After 1968: Budapest, Kurtag, and events
  • p. 127
  • Politics and culture in Budapest
  • p. 127
  • Kurtag's presence
  • p. 137
  • Music and Passion
  • Interlude: Games, or passing the message on
  • Music and teaching, music and seeking
  • 5
  • After 'The West': Ligeti looks back
  • p. 163
  • Ligeti as emigre
  • p. 164
  • Hungary abroad?
  • p. 169
  • Language in music: home?
  • Language as music
  • Light and dark Ligeti in Hungary
  • p. 187
  • 6
  • After Budapest: out of Hungary?
  • p. 194
  • Budapest, dissolution, and the end of the Cold War
  • p. 194
  • Kurtag's Voices
  • p. 199
  • Russian intimations
  • Central European truths
  • Hungarian ideals
  • Voices from elsewhere?
  • Epilogue: On 'Hungary', and (our) longing for Moscow
  • p. 226
  • Bluebeard and Three Sisters
  • p. 228
  • Longing and myth
  • p. 230
  • Coming home
  • p. 233
  • Personalia
  • p. 234
  • Bibliography
  • p. 244
  • Index
  • p. 273