Floros New Ears for New Music

Translated by Kenneth Chalmers
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-3-653-99772-9
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

20th-century music is characterized by a bewildering multitude of trends and movements. Often several movements co-exist in contradiction to each other, in a reflection of the century’s intellectual currents and social and political changes, and the reactions they prompted. In this book, renowned musicologist and author Constantin Floros provides a survey of the different styles and tendencies in new music, presenting the most important composers from Schoenberg to Rihm in a series of fluent and readable essays that will appeal to connoisseurs and non-specialists alike. For Floros, music and biography are inseparable, and here he puts music in the context of the social and psychological background of its time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Floros, Constantin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikpsychologie, Musiksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: From Expressionism to Experiment – Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School – The problem of 'German Music' – Gurrelieder – Pierrot lunaire – Moses and Aron – Nikos Skalkottas – Luigi Nono – Messiaen and Boulez – Nationalism and Folklorism – György Ligeti – Multicultural Phenomena in the New Music – Bernd Alois Zimmermann – Alfred Schnittke – Hans Werner Henze – Wolfgang Rihm – Postmodernism.

Über Autor(innen)

Constantin Floros is professor emeritus of musicology at the University of Hamburg and a prolific writer on diverse subjects. Among his monographs are volumes on the origin of Gregorian neumes, about Beethoven’s Eroica, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Alban Berg and György Ligeti.