Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 292 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511482052
Series Statement:
Cambridge composer studies
Content:
This book is the first major publication devoted to the music of Janácek, now widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays, all by leading scholars, deal with a broad range of subjects relating to opera, symphonic poem, instrumental music, cultural context and reception. Some topics, such as the sources of Janácek's musical expressivity, questions of narrative, Janácek as musical analyst and Janácek as realist, are considered seriously for the first time, whilst other more conventional topics, such as 'speech melody' and Janácek's ethnographic activities, are reappraised. A transcription of Janácek's analytical study of 'Jeux de vagues' from Debussy's La mer is published for the first time, and this document is considered in the light of Janácek's theory of music as a whole and of the reception of La mer
Content:
Expressive sources and resources in Janáček's musical language / Robin Holloway -- "Nothing but pranks and puns" : Janáček's solo piano music / Thomas Adès -- Narrative in Janáček's symphonic poems / Hugh MacDonald -- Evasive realism : narrative construction in Dostoyevsky's and Janáček's From the house of the dead / Geoffrey Chew and Robert Vilain -- Direct discourse and speech melody in Janáček's operas / Miloš Štědroň -- Kundera's eternal present and Janáček's ancient gypsy / Michael Beckerman -- Janáček's folk settings and the "Vixen" / Zdeněk Skoumal -- Janáček's operas in Australia and New Zealand : a performance history / Adrienne Simpson -- Janáček's Moravian publishers / Nigel Simeone -- Janáček, musical analysis, and Debussy's Jeux de vagues / Paul Wingfield
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521573573
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521027724
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521573573
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482052
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