Neoclassicism in Music

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-878822-73-4
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

The first historical and critical study of neoclassicism from the genesis of the concept in fin de siecleFrance in the 1870s through the Schoenberg/Stravinsky polemic. By the end of the nineteenth century the traits of "classicism" in music had become clearly established. This codification cast long shadows over contemporary artists, encouraging a movement away from order, continuity and tradition towards freedom, innovation and novelty - and the term neoclassicism made its first appearance.

This study, the first ever critical examination of "neoclassicism" in music, provides a broad cultural context for the investigation of its origins, then looks in turn at Wagner and the French reaction to him; Saint-Saens, d'Indy, Debussy, Ravel and their French contemporaries; Germany and France in the decade which includes the First World War, with special reference to Thomas Mann and Ferrucio Busoni, and to Jean Cocteau and the "New Simplicity"; and Igor Stravinsky, the composer most frequently cited in connection with this term.

Reprint; first published 1988.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Messing, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Klassische Musik des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Musical Examples
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Neoclassicism in France: 1870-1914
2. Neoclassicism in Germany: 1910-1925
3. Neoclassicism in France: 1914-1923
4. Neoclassicism and Stravinsky: 1914-1923
5. Neoclassicism and Stravinsky: 1923-1927
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index