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Product Description: At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellowsâthe former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive...read more
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9781421420622 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 2016, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellowsâthe former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve.
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9781107127210 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2015, cover price $120.00
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9781421416434, titled "Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872â1927" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 17, 2015, cover price $59.95
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9781421416441, titled "Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872â1927" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 17, 2015, cover price $29.95
Product Description: This book offers a fresh discussion of the methodology of music historiography. So far historiographical methodology has always depended on other fields within humanities (especially on history) to a degree where it moved the focus of its thought away from the musical workâs structure and away from the musical work itself...read more
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9783631629185 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 22, 2015, cover price $60.95 | About this edition: This book offers a fresh discussion of the methodology of music historiography.
Product Description: Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably "applied" branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives. Its composers in the 1930s and '40s were themselves often scornful of it and aspired to produce more 'serious' works that would enhance their artistic reputation...read more
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9780195383454 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2011, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably 'applied' branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives.
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9780190246549 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2015), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Hollywood film music is often mocked as a disreputably "applied" branch of the art of composition that lacks both the seriousness and the quality of the classical or late-romantic concert and operatic music from which it derives.
Product Description: When Stravinskyâs Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh Epstein examines the significance of noise in modernist music and literature...read more
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9781421415239 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 6, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: When Stravinskyâs Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score.
Product Description: Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another...read more
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9781107005051 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another.
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9781107655300 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 2, 2014), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Traditionally, ideas about twentieth-century 'modernism' - whether focused on literature, music or the visual arts - have made a distinction between 'high' art and the 'popular' arts of best-selling fiction, jazz and other forms of popular music, and commercial art of one form or another.
Product Description: Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement. Modernist music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis and forcibly replaced by socialist realism under the Soviets. Sympathetic philosophers and critics have interpreted it as a vital intellectual defence against totalitarianism, yet some American critics consider it elitist, undemocratic and even unnatural...read more
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9780521765213 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $109.99 | About this edition: Modernism is both a contested aesthetic category and a powerful political statement.
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9780199730162 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 17, 2012, cover price $73.00
Product Description: Music and Modernism is a collection of essays which re-evaluates the significant connections between the disciplines of music, fine art and architecture in the period covering the emergence and flowering of modernism, c. 1849 1950...read more
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9781443826969 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, March 1, 2011, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Music and Modernism is a collection of essays which re-evaluates the significant connections between the disciplines of music, fine art and architecture in the period covering the emergence and flowering of modernism, c.
Product Description: Composers and artists have always borrowed from each other. Peter Vergo, for the first time, offers an in-depth study of how and why, in the modernist era, music and painting became intertwined. Artist-composer relationships examined include Debussy's interest in Whistler, Tuner, and Monet, Franz Liszt's fascination with Raphael and Michelangelo, Kandinsky with Schoenberg and Paul Klee's influence from Polyphonic music...read more
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9780714857626 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, November 22, 2010, cover price $69.95
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9780714863863, titled "The Music of Painting: Music, Modernism and the Visual Arts from the Romantics to John Cage" | Phaidon Inc Ltd, January 9, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Composers and artists have always borrowed from each other.
Product Description: Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides a fresh and close look at these moments, exploring the ways musical compositions shift to and away from ideological structures identified with modernity...read more
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9781409407614 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 15, 2010, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century.
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9781409418245 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 10, 2010, cover price $89.95
Product Description: In 'Music and Literary Modernism', the intersections of music, literature and language are examined by an international group of scholars who engage in studies of modernist art and practice. The essays collected here present the significant place of music in the writing of T...read more
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9781443814027 | 2 edition (Cambridge Scholars Pub, December 1, 2009), cover price $58.95 | About this edition: In 'Music and Literary Modernism', the intersections of music, literature and language are examined by an international group of scholars who engage in studies of modernist art and practice.
9781904303534 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, September 1, 2006, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Examines the intersections of music, literature and language by an international group of scholars who engage in studies of modernist art and practice.
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9780317046137, titled "Summer Birds from the Yucatan Peninsula Mexico" | Museum of Natural History, June 1, 1968, cover price $1.75 | also contains Summer Birds from the Yucatan Peninsula Mexico
Product Description: Is there really such a thing as Jewish music? And how does it survive as a practice of worship and cultural expression even in the face of the many brutal aesthetic and political challenges of modernity? In Jewish Music and Modernity, Philip V...read more
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9780195178326 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 26, 2008, cover price $56.00 | About this edition: Is there really such a thing as Jewish music?
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9780199946846 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2012), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Is there really such a thing as Jewish music?
Traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century. This book explores the modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms.
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9780434010448 | Gardners Books, November 1, 2007, cover price $32.90 | About this edition: Traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century.
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