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Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music
Peter Franklin
其他書名
Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
出版Univ of California Press, 2014-02-15
主題Music / Genres & Styles / ClassicalMusic / History & CriticismMusic / Genres & Styles / Opera
ISBN05202803939780520280397
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4DglDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic periodÑMahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, PucciniÑregarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally self-indulgent? Peter Franklin takes a close and even-handed look at how and why late-romantic symphonies and operas steered a complex course between modernism and mass culture in the period leading up to the Second World War. The styleÕs continuing popularity and its domination of the film music idiom (via work by composers such as Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and their successors) bring late-romantic music to thousands of listeners who have never set foot in a concert hall. Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music sheds new light on these often unfairly disparaged works and explores the historical dimension of their continuing role in the contemporary sound world.