Stephen Downes

Music and Decadence in European Modernism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Downes presents a detailed examination of the significance of decadence in Central and Eastern European modernist music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 846g
• ISBN-13: 9780521767576
• ISBN-10: 0521767571
• Artikelnr.: 28906190

Autorenporträt

Stephen Downes is Reader in Musicology at the University of Surrey. He is the author of Szymanowski as Post-Wagnerian (1994), Szymanowski, Eroticism and the Voices of Mythology (2003) and The Muse as Eros: Music, Eroticism and Male Creativity in the Romantic and Modern Imagination (2006). In 1999 he was awarded the Karol Szymanowski Memorial Medal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Decadence, music and the map of European modernism
2. Pessimism and nihilism
3. Degeneration and regeneration
4. Deformation and dissolution
5. Mannerism and avant-garde
6. Convalescence and primitivism.