Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music - Singing Devils and Distant Sounds (Hardcover)

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, 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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ernest Bloch Lectures, 14
Release date:	February 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Peter Franklin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-28039-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	0-520-28039-3
Barcode:	9780520280397

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