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Chargement... Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Musicpar Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles E. Ives
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Busoni is one of my favorite composers. He possessed a complex style that combined the height of the Romantic era with a Modernism based on new ideas. In compositions like his operas (Doktor Faust, Turandot, and Arlecchino) he was on the leading edge of the twentieth century. Yet, he looked backward to Bach with a stylistic approach steeped in the soul of Liszt. Born in Italy but German in his approach to music he was also a theorist of Music and this volume is his exploration of absolute music and the nature of modern tonal music. ( ) One of the joys of reading about aesthetics, particular as the field applies to music, is that there is such a variance of thought about what is beautiful. For all three of the authors included in this collection, beauty is not solely defined by consonance and dissonance. These composer-authors grapple with the role of inspiration, philosophical contexts, and music itself. Claude Debussy, "Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater" (1927) Debussy does not mince words and offers invective toward everything from opera to arts administration. It is more music criticism than a specific treatise on aesthetics. It is impossible, however, to read this group of essays without tasting the clear flavor of Debussy's own aesthetic agenda. For example, the Paris Opera, for Debussy, "...continue[s] to produce curious noises which the people who pay call music, but there is no need to believe them implicitly." (24) Ferruccio Busoni, "Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music "(1911) Busoni gives the reader a more straightforward offering complete with footnotes and musical examples. However, even Busoni likes to wax poetic: "Tradition is a plaster mask taken from life..." (n.1, p. 7). In another footnote, Busoni makes the case for microtonality, attacking the idea of musical "purity": "But what is "pure," and what "impure?" We hear a piano "gone out of tune," and whose intervals may thus have become "pure, but unserviceable," and it sounds impure to us. The diplomatic "Twelve-semitone system" is an invention mothered by necessity yet none the less do we sedulously guard its imperfections." (89) Charles Ives, "Essays before a Sonata" (1920) It is Ives' contribution that is the most beautiful read. He offers an essay that is one part program note (for the Concord Sonata (1915, rev. 1947)) to two parts philosophical and aesthetic treatise. Writing with all the passion and transcendental fervor he can muster, Ives presents various New England literary figureheads as aesthetes, blurring the line between the artistry of literature and that of music. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Excerpt from Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater; Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music; Essays Before a Sonata At this precise moment my door-bell rang and I made the acquaintance of Monsieur Croche. It is unnecessary to check the flow of this narrative with the Obvious or trifling incidents Of his first visit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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