Transformations of Musical Modernism

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Erling E. Guldbrandsen (Universitetet i Oslo) Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Transformations of Musical Modernism

Erling E. Guldbrandsen (Universitetet i Oslo), Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London)

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Cambridge University Press
11 May 2023

Music; Music reviews & criticism; Early music (up to c 1000 CE); 20th century & contemporary classical music; Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama)

Series: Music since 1900

Profound transformations in the composition, performance and reception of modernist music have taken place in recent decades. This collection brings fresh perspectives to bear upon key questions surrounding the forms that musical modernism takes today, how modern music is performed and heard, and its relationship to earlier music. In sixteen chapters, leading figures in the field and emerging scholars examine modernist music from the inside, in terms of changing practices of composition, musical materials and overarching aesthetic principles, and from the outside, in terms of the changing contextual frameworks in which musical modernism has taken place and been understood. Shaped by a 'rehearing' of modernist music, the picture that emerges redraws the map of musical modernism as a whole and presents a full-scale re-evaluation of what the modernist movement has all been about.

Edited by: Erling E. Guldbrandsen (Universitetet i Oslo), Julian Johnson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 605g
ISBN: 9781107566095
ISBN 10: 1107566096
Series: Music since 1900
Pages: 367
Publication Date: 11 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Julian Johnson and Erling E. Guldbrandsen; Part I. Rethinking Modernism: 1. The lure of the sublime: revisiting the modernist project Susan McClary; 2. Return of the repressed: particularity in early and late modernism Julian Johnson; 3. Expressionism revisited: modernism beyond the twentieth century Arnold Whittall; 4. Erik Bergman, cosmopolitanism and the transformation of musical geography Björn Heile; 5. Sharing a stage: the growing proximity between modernism and popular music David Metzer; Part II. Rewriting Modernism: 6. Ritual and Eros in James Dillon's Come live with me Michael Cherlin; 7. Montage in modernity: scattered fragments, dynamic fragments Jean-Paul Olive; 8. Transformations of appearance: suddenness and the modernist fragment Marion Hestholm; 9. Rethinking Boulez: schemes, logics and paradigms of musical modernity Edward Campbell; 10. Remembrance and prognosis in the music of György Ligeti Peter Edwards; 11. Valentin Silvestrov and the symphonic monument in ruins Samuel Wilson; Part III. Replaying Modernism: 12. Playing with transformations: Boulez's Improvisation III sur Mallarmé Erling E. Guldbrandsen; 13. Performance as critique Arnulf Christian Mattes; 14. 'Unwrapping' the voice: Cathy Berberian and John Cage's Aria Francesca Placanica; 15. Radically idiomatic instrumental practice in works by Brian Ferneyhough Anders Førisdal; 16. The ethics of performance practice in complex music after 1945 Tanja Orning.

Erling E. Guldbrandsen is professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo where he leads the research group, '20/21 - Musical Trajectories Today'. He has carried out research at IRCAM (Paris) and at the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel) and received the King's Gold Medal for his work on Boulez. His 2006 article on Mahler and Boulez was awarded the Norwegian prize, 'Scientific Article of the Year'. He has published widely on Wagner and musical drama, musical modernism, music history, analysis, performance practice and aesthetic experience. Julian Johnson is Regius Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written five books, including Webern and the Transformation of Nature (Cambridge, 1999) and Mahler's Voices (2009). His most recent book, Out of Time: Music and the Making of Modernity (2015), considers music's constitutive relation to modernity from the sixteenth century to the present. In 2005, he was awarded the Dent Medal of the RMA for 'outstanding contributions to musicology' and, in 2013, became the first holder of the Diamond Jubilee Regius Chair of Music.