UID:
almahu_9949384924502882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 298 pages)
ISBN:
9781351392587
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1351392581
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9781315142135
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1315142139
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135139259X
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9781351392594
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0367882396
,
9780367882396
Content:
"Michael Christoforidis is widely recognized as a leading expert on one of Spain's most important composers, Manuel de Falla. This volume brings together both new chapters and revised versions of previously published work, some of which is made available here in English for the first time. The introductory chapter provides a biographical outline of the composer and characterisations of both Falla and his music during his lifetime. The sections that follow explore different facets of Falla's mature works and musical identity. The first section traces the evolution of his flamenco-inspired Spanish style through contacts with Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky, while the second explores the impact of post-First World War modernities on Falla's musical nationalism. The final section reflects on aspects of Falla's music and the politics of Spain in the 1930s and 1940s. Situating his discussion of these aspects of Falla's music within a broader context, including currents in literature and the visual arts, Christoforidis provides a distinctive and original contribution to the study of Falla, as well as to the wider fields of musical modernism, exoticism, and music and politics."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Part I: Prelude -- 1. Images of a life -- Part II: Parisian encounters and Andalusian echoes -- 2. Conversations with Claude Debussy: La vida breve and beyond -- 3. Isaac Albéniz, Claude Debussy and views of the Alhambra from Paris -- 4. Fabricating Spanish folk songs in Paris: Siete canciones populares españolas -- 5. Belle époque primitivism, Igor Stravinsky and El amor brujo (1915) -- 6. The Spanish guitar and evocations of Andalusia -- Part III: The Hispanic modernist -- 7. Picasso, Ortega y Gasset and the framing of El retablo de maese Pedro -- 8. New orchestral horizons and echoes of the past in El retablo de maese Pedro -- 9. The mysterious case of the disappearing Moors in El retablo de maese Pedro -- 10. The aesthetics of sobriety: reconciling faith and modernity -- 11. Hispanic traditions through the lens of European modernity in the Concerto -- Part IV: In search of Atlantis -- 12. Greek echoes in the construction of Hispanic identity -- 13. Negotiating politics, religion and the idea of Castile in 1930s Spain -- 14. Argentine afterword: Thoughts on religion, Spain and global cataclysm from the new world.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Christoforidis, Michael. Manuel de Falla and visions of Spanish music. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018 ISBN 9780754631934
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.4324/9781315142135
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315142135
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