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Beauty in Music

Conflicting Views in the Modern Age

Alicja Jarzębska (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

466 Seiten

2025
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-86494-4 (ISBN)

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This book is interdisciplinary in nature and examines the debate over beauty in twentieth-century art. It synthesizes artistic phenomena and composers’ aesthetic attitudes considering the ideological and social contexts of music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The proposed historiographical structure is based on the premise that diverse artistic phenomena and aesthetic attitudes can be interpreted in relation to the concept of beauty, which was largely “banished” in the twentieth century. Jarzębska addresses the debates over models of musical culture in the interwar period, inspired by the ideas of national and progressive music. She also explores issues related to musical life, which in the postwar period was influenced by the Iron Curtain and , at the turn of the second millennium by postmodern philosophy and the rise of rock culture.

Alicja Jarzêbska, is a full professor of the Jagiellonian University of Cracow, music historian and theorist. She has lectured at the State University of New York, Universität Regensburg, Universität Salzburg, Kamensky University in Bratislava. She has conducted series of lectures at the University in Poznañ, the Music Academy in Cracow, and the University of Music in Warsaw. She is the author of many books, among others, Stravinsky. His Thoughts and Music (2020).

Introduction – Part I. Towards modernity – 1. In the shadow of Wagner and Nietzsche – 2. The ideas of pantheism, theosophy and futurism and their resonance in the art of musical composition – 3. Interest in non- European and old pagan cultures – 4. The controversial idea of national music – Part II. The height of modernity – 5. The dispute over the aesthetics of modern music – 6. The dispute over ‘unity in variety’ in the art of composition and the notion of progress – 7. Avant- garde ideas of serialism, aleatorism and sonorism – 8. The Cold War in musical culture, the yearning for beauty and the joy of making music – Part III. In the fetters of late modernity – 9. The decline of the idea of progress and the search for new creative ideas – 10. Liberation from the pressure of the avant- garde: postmodern games with tradition, the ‘musical ark’ and the biblical world in music – 11. ‘Eternal’ classicism and existential dilemmas in music – List of examples – Selected bibliography – Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Eastern European Studies in Musicology ; 27
Übersetzer	John Comber
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	665 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Schlagworte	Aesthetics • Alicja • avant-garde • Beauty • Comber • Conflicting • Controversy • dodecaphonic and serial music • eternal classicism • Gołąb • history of music • Jarzebska • Jazz • John • Maciej • Modern • modernism • music • national music • philosophy of art • Postmodernism • rock culture • sonorism • sung poetry • the Bible in music • the ideology of progress in art • Views
ISBN-10	3-631-86494-9 / 3631864949
ISBN-13	978-3-631-86494-4 / 9783631864944
Zustand	Neuware