Beckerman Janácek and His World

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3209-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 320 Seiten

Reihe: The Bard Music Festival

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Beckerman, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Introduction: Janacek and Our World, pg. 1
The Cultural Politics of Language and Music: Max Brod and Leoš Janácek, pg. 13
How Janacek Composed Operas, pg. 55
Janacek and the Captured Muse, pg. 79
Reinterpreting Janacek and Kamila: Dangerous Liaisons in Czech Fin-de-Siecle Music and Literature, pg. 99
A Turk and a Moravian in Prague: Janácek's Broucek and the Perils of Musical Patriotism, pg. 145
Zdenka Janackova's Memoirs and the Fallacy of Music as Autobiography, pg. 165
Janacek's Vizitka, pg. 197
Introduction: Janacek—Writer, pg. 219
"Tristan and Isolde By Richard Wagner" (1884-1885), pg. 221
"My Luhacovice" (1903), pg. 226
"Last Year and this Year" (1905), pg. 239
"An Example from Podskali" (1909), pg. 254
"Whitsunday 1910 in Prague" (1910), pg. 258
"Stage Direction" (1918), pg. 271
'Janacek On Naturalism" (1924-1925), pg. 287
Index, pg. 307
Notes on the Contributors, pg. 315

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Beckerman is Professor of Music at New York University. His books include Janácek as Theorist (Pendragon), Janácek and Czech Music (Pendragon) Dvorák and His World (Princeton), and New Worlds of Dvorák (Norton). He writes on music for the New York Times, was awarded the Janácek Medal by the Czech Government, and is a laureate of the Czech Music Council.