Stephen Zank

Irony and Sound (eBook, PDF)

The Music of Maurice Ravel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An insightful and exquisitely written reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.

What is it about Boléro, Gaspard de la nuit, and Daphnis et Chloé that makes musicians and listeners alike love them so?
Stephen Zank here illuminates these and other works of Maurice Ravel through several of the composer's fascinations: dynamic intensification, counterpoint, orchestration, exotic influences on Western music, and an interest in multisensorial perception.
Connecting all these fascinations, Zank argues, is irony. His book offers an appreciation of Ravel's musical irony that is grounded in the vocabularies and criticism of the time and in two early attempts at writing up a "Ravel Aesthetic" by intimates of Ravel.
Thomas Mann calledirony the phenomenon that is, "beyond compare, the most profound and most alluring in the world." Irony and Sound, written with insight and flair, provides a long-needed reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture.

Musicologist Stephen Zank has taught at University of Illinois, University of North Texas, and University of Rochester. He is the author of Maurice Ravel: A Guideto Research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 449
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580467254
• Artikelnr.: 63918587

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction "Gentle Irony" Simple Sound: Ravel and "Crescendo" Opposed
Sound: Ravel and Counterpoint Displaced Sound: Ravel and Registration
Plundered Sound: Ravel and the Exotic Sound and Sense: Ravel and
Synaesthesia "Secrets of Modernity": Irony and Style Appendix: Ravel's 1902
Prix de Rome Fugue Notes Bibliography Index