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Hugo Riemann and the Birth of Modern Musical Thought
Generally acknowledged as the most important German musicologist of his age, Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) shaped the ideas of generations of music scholars, not least because his work coincided with the institutionalisation of academic musicology around the turn of the last century. This influence, however, belies the contentious idea at the heart of his musical thought, an idea he defended for most of his career - harmonic dualism. By situating Riemann's musical thought within turn-of-the-century discourses about the natural sciences, German nationhood and modern technology, this book reconstructs the cultural context in which Riemann's ideas not only 'made sense' but advanced an understanding of the tonal tradition as both natural and German. Riemann's musical thought - from his considerations of acoustical properties to his aesthetic and music-historical views - thus regains the coherence and cultural urgency that it once possessed.
The Psychophysical Ear
An examination of how the scientific study of sound sensation became increasingly intertwined with musical aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to European cities and classical music introduced new compositional trends. At the same time, leading physicists, physiologists, and psychologists were preoccupied with understanding the sensory perception of sound from a psychophysical perspective, seeking a direct and measurable relationship between physical stimulation and physical sensation. These scientists inc...
Music After the Fall
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Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic
Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state.
Music and Monumentality
This critical study locates musical monumentality, a central property of the nineteenth-century German repertoire, at the intersections of aesthetics and memory. In examples including Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner and Bruckner, Rehding explores how monumentality contributes to an experiential music history and how it conveys the sublime to the listening public.
Silence and its Derivatives
This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives, day-to-day conversations, modern poetry, creative writing clubs, and visual novels, among others. The contributions engage with the historical shifts in how silence and silencing have been viewed, conceptualized and recorded throughout the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, then present a series of case studies from disciplines including linguistics, history, literature and culture, and geographical settings ranging from Argentina to the Philippines, Nigeria, Ireland, Morocco, Japan, South Africa, and Vietnam. Through these examples, the authors underline the thematic and methodological contact zones between different fields and traditions, providing a stimulating and truly interdisciplinary volume that will be of interest to scholars across the humanities.
Music Sketches
This introduction provides students and scholars with the information and skills they need when studying composers' sketches.
Elektroakustische Musik in der DDR
Elektroakustische Musik hat auch vor der DDR nicht Halt gemacht: Es wurden westliche Werke rezipiert und auch, wenn es erst ab Mitte der 80er Jahre geeignete Studios in der DDR gab, haben einige Komponisten kreative Möglichkeiten gefunden, sich mit elektroakustischer Klangerzeugung und -bearbeitung zu beschäftigen. Im vorliegenden Band werden die treibenden Akteure und Institutionen, zu denen neben Studios auch Festivals und Ensembles gehörten, beleuchtet. Es wird zudem der Frage nachgegangen, wie die elektroakustischen Kompositionsmittel in den Werken, die in der DDR entstanden sind, eingesetzt wurden und ob es hier einen Zusammenhang mit den ästhetischen Vorgaben der DDR-Kulturpolitik gab. Anhand von zeitgenössischen Rezensionen elektroakustischer Werke und Aufführungen wird dargestellt, wie sich ein Wandel in der DDR-Kulturpolitik insbesondere in der Beurteilung vom Verhältnis des ausübenden Musikers zur Technik, von inhuman zu fortschrittlich, vollzieht.
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"Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815?915 "
Introducing the concept of music and painting as 'rival sisters' during the nineteenth century, this interdisciplinary collection explores the productive exchange-from rivalry to inspiration to collaboration-between the two media in the age of Romanticism and Modernism. The volume traces the relationship between art and music, from the opposing claims for superiority of the early nineteenth century, to the emergence of the concept of synesthesia around 1900. This collection puts forward a more complex history of the relationship between art and music than has been described in earlier works, including an intermixing of models and distinctions between approaches to them. Individual essays from art history, musicology, and literature examine the growing influence of art upon music, and vice versa, in the works of Berlioz, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Rodin, Debussy, and the Pre-Raphaelites, among other artists.
