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Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
Peter Franklin
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Description for Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
Hardback. Series: Ernest Bloch Lectures. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period--Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini--regarded 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 style's continuing popularity and its domination of the film music idiom (via work by composers such as Max Steiner, ... Read more
Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period--Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini--regarded 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 style's continuing popularity and its domination of the film music idiom (via work by composers such as Max Steiner, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Ernest Bloch Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280397
SKU
V9780520280397
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About Peter Franklin
Peter Franklin is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College. His books include Mahler: Symphony no.3 (1991), The Life of Mahler (1997), and Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Score (2011).
Reviews for Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds
"A valuable new perspective to late-romantic repertoire ... a 'must read.' "
Erinn Knyt Notes "Franklin unravels the tangle of snobbery that has labeled Mahler a peddler of derivative kitsch and consigned Schreker to near complete obscurity. In doing so, he does more than just reclaim them - he invites us to rediscover the sheer pleasure of music and ... Read more
Erinn Knyt Notes "Franklin unravels the tangle of snobbery that has labeled Mahler a peddler of derivative kitsch and consigned Schreker to near complete obscurity. In doing so, he does more than just reclaim them - he invites us to rediscover the sheer pleasure of music and ... Read more