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Nation and Classical Music - From Handel to Copland (Hardcover)
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Nation and Classical Music - From Handel to Copland (Hardcover)
Series: Music in Society and Culture
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How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation'
through particular musical works? This book develops a comparative
analysis of the relationship between western art music, nations and
nationalism. It explores the influence of emergent nations and
nationalism on the development of classical music in Europe and
North America and examines the distinctive themes, sounds and
resonances to be found in the repertory of each of the nations. Its
scope is broad, extending well beyond the period 1848-1914 when
national music flourished most conspicuously. The interplay of
music and nation encompasses the oratorios of Handel, the open-air
music of the French Revolution and the orchestral works of
Beethoven and Mendelssohn and extends into the mid-twentieth
century in the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Copland. The
book addresses the representation of the national community, the
incorporation of ethnic vernacular idioms into art music, the
national homeland in music, musical adaptations of national myths
and legends, the music of national commemoration and the
canonisation of national music. Bringing together insights from
nationalism studies, musicology and cultural history, it will be
essential reading not only for musicologists but for cultural
historians and historians of nationalism as well. MATTHEW RILEY is
Reader in Music at the University of Birmingham. The late ANTHONY
D. SMITH was Professor Emeritus of Nationalism andEthnicity at the
London School of Economics.
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