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Music and decadence in European modernism : the case of Central and Eastern Europe /

Title:
Music and decadence in European modernism : the case of Central and Eastern Europe /
Author:
Downes, Stephen C., 1962-
Published:
Cambridge ; New York : 2010.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Decadence, music, and the map of European modernism. Introduction ; Music and decadence ; Defining and defending decadence ; The sources and styles of modern decadence ; Themes of decadence in Central and Eastern Europe -- Pessimism and nihilism. Introduction ; Nietzche's symtoms of decandence : Turgenev, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer ; Musical pessimism : Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Strauss ; Dionysus debilitated : the symphonic poems of Karlowitz ; Divergent Russian decadents : Rachmaninov, Scriabin and the end ; Bartok's elegiac modernism -- Degeneration and regeneration. Introduction ; Brunnhilde's double end ; Salome's double end ; The double Elektra -- Deformation and dissolution. Introduction ; Romantic wave form and energetics ; Intensification and dissolution : a wave deformation in Strauss's Salome ; Resisting decadence : the finale of Mahler's Sixth Symphony ; Berg's Op. 1 and the emaciation of dissonance ; Artificial waves : the Count's ballad from Schreker's Der ferne Klang -- Mannerism and avant-garde. Introduction ; Russian miniaturism : Scriabin, Lyadov and the Chopinesque ; Strauss and mannerism : Der Rosenkavalier ; Decadence and avant-garde : extremes touch ; Strauss as decadent and avant-gardist ; Hearing decadence in Shroenberg -- Convalescence and primitivism. Introduction ; Nietzsche contra Schumann? The convalescent philosopher-composer ; Wagnerian agony and Wolf's leading-tone treatment ; Szymanowski, pain and recovery : the rehabilitation of Chopin and Dionysian regeneration.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML240.4 .D69 2010Available