Elliott Carter's Late Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Link
Keyword(s):  
Reception History ◽  
John Ashbery ◽  
Modernist Poetry ◽  
Louis Zukofsky ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Concert Music ◽  
Post War ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The first comprehensive study of the late music of one of the most influential composers of the last half century, this book places Elliott Carter's music from 1995 to 2012 in the broader context of post-war contemporary concert music, including his own earlier work. It addresses Carter's reception history, his aesthetics, and his harmonic and rhythmic practice, and includes detailed essays on all of Carter's major works after 1995. Special emphasis is placed on Carter's settings of contemporary modernist poetry from John Ashbery to Louis Zukofsky. In readable and engaging prose, Elliott Carter's Late Music illuminates a body of late work that stands at the forefront of the composer's achievements.

Who Killed the Concert? Heinrich Besseler and the Inter-War Politics of Gebrauchsmusik

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTHEW PRITCHARD
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Music History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Concert Music ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Positive Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
Post War ◽  
Youth Music

AbstractBy examining the ideas expressed by the German musicologist Heinrich Besseler in his 1925 essay ‘Grundfragen des musikalischen Hörens’, this article attempts to find precedents in Weimar Germany for a contemporary social conception of music, and to trace the effects of this conception on music history between the wars. Although Besseler's position is seen to be complex and not wholly consistent, from his ideal of music as an expression of community (Gemeinschaft) arose two influential claims: that the concert was in crisis because it could no longer correspond to that ideal, and that the real source of communal vitality lay in Gebrauchsmusik, music for everyday use. The article explores the immediate political and musical consequences of these claims, both for the German youth music movement (Jugendmusikbewegung) and for Gebrauchsmusik as composed by Weill, Hindemith, and Eisler. It argues that the social aims of the Gebrauchsmusik movement were in fact best met when combined with an earlier understanding, rejected by Besseler himself, of the concert's own ‘community-forming power’ – a theoretical combination that was to lead outside Europe to the American musical and the Soviet symphony. By contrast, the sidelining of such ideas in post-war Germany was reflected in Adorno's outright rejection of musical community, a move which served to confirm only Besseler's first, negative claim – thereby establishing as normative an ‘autonomous’ conception of concert music and leaving musicology unable to give any positive account of the concert's social role.

Yugoslavism: Some Aspects and Comments

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrije Djordjević
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Post War ◽  
Science Association ◽  
Social Science Association ◽  
Comprehensive Study

AbstractAt the April, 1972, Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association, which took place in Salt Lake City, five young American scholars presented papers dealing with various aspects of Yugoslavism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The papers and subsequent discussions were interesting from two standpoints. First, the authors belong to the youngest generation of American scholars familiar with the several Yugoslav languages and with Yugoslav archives and other sources. Second, the topic of Yugoslavism is not only complex and provocative, but currently topical as well. It is striking that even today, more than fifty-five years after the creation of the Yugoslav state, we do not have a modern and comprehensive study of the origins and development of the Yugoslav idea and, consequently, of the Yugoslav movement in the past. Inter-war Yugoslav historiography usually approached the problem from the "unitaristic" viewpoint, which corresponded to the political necessities of the time.1 As a reaction to this. post-war Yugoslav historiography espoused the other extreme: a stress on the national histories of the various Yugoslav peoples, to the detriment of the Yugoslav entity.2 When we attempt to study the development of Yugoslavism in the past, it strikes me as necessary to find the answers to three general questions: 1. What caused the origin of the Yugoslav idea? 2. What were the features of its development? 3. What were the internal and external obstacles the Yugoslav movement had to confront?

‘Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer’: the post-war pastoral in space-age bachelor-pad music

Popular Music ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Leydon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Concert Music ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Pastoral Mode ◽  
Space Age ◽  
Post War ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Mode A

Juan Garcia Esquivel's compositions and band arrangements of the late 1950s and early 1960s – his so-called ‘space-age bachelor pad music’ – feature exotic and futuristic instruments, dazzling stereo effects, textless vocalisations, and an array of colourful harmonic resources. This paper situates Esquivel's music within the venerable tradition of the Pastoral mode, a specialised narrative mode met in certain literary and musical works. I begin with an account of the musical pastoral, illustrated with reference to Renaissance madrigals, opera libretti, and especially French concert music from the turn of the twentieth century. In the music of ‘impressionist’ composers, pastoral conventions include a preponderance of ‘slithery’ sounds such as tremolo, trills, glissandi, gauzy timbres, colouristic harmonies and, especially, an over-abundance of motivic material. The steady parade of new themes, with little repetition, and rapidly changing orchestral colours impart a hedonistic atmosphere, consistent with the ‘fantasy of plenitude’ associated with the literary Pastoral. Esquivel's music, I claim, represents a transposition of this bucolic style, in which the ephemeral sounds of the flute and harp are transformed into their space-age counterparts: theremin, vibraphone, buzzimba, and the ‘zu-zu-zu’ of the Randy Van Horne Singers. Esquivel's music, I argue, reconstitutes the particular erotic configurations of classic pastoral: in place of fauns and nymphs are suave bachelors and their dates. The paper concludes with a discussion of representations of the ‘leisurely bachelor’ in other contemporaneous media.

Some Aspects of the Interregnum in Malaya (14 August–3 September 1945)

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheah Boon Kheng
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Following Japan's announcement of unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers on 14 August 1945, almost three crucial weeks elapsed in Malaya before the landing of the British Royal Marines at Penang on 3 September. A day before the Marines landed, Vice-Admiral Walker had arrived off Penang aboard H.M.S. Nelson, and received the surrender of the local Japanese commanders. What happened in Malaya during the Interregnum still awaits a comprehensive study. The Interregnum is an important period in Malaya's social and political history which saw, on the one hand, the dramatic and cataclysmic collapse of the Japanese order and, on the other, the eruption of local political and social forces which were involved in a relentless and deadly struggle for power. True, there was no social revolution, as in Indonesia. What took place were conflicts along mainly communal rather than class lines. No class conflicts took place among the Malays, as in Sumatra between the traditional and religious groups, or among the Chinese and Indians. The social structures of the various communities in Malaya emerged relatively intact throughout the Interregnum and in the period thereafter. But there were bloody racial clashes, between Malays and Chinese. There were also bloody political feuds amongst the Chinese themselves. But, on the whole, the Malay-Chinese conflicts had far more serious repercussions on Malaya's post-war society and political development.

scholarly journals Metodologia śledztwa w poszukiwaniu biografii Jerzego Siewierskiego

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 516-540
Author(s):  
Milena Kościelniak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Memory ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Present Text ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The history of literature, like human memory, can be as selective as it is unreliable, which means that many authors of every epoch disappear into the darkness of oblivion. A researcher’s task is to restore the memory of those whose works he or she finds valuable or interesting enough to want to study. The present text deals with Jerzy Siewierski, a largely forgotten writer of post-war Poland and a silent co-founder of the flagship magazine “Współczesność,” in an attempt to reconstruct the biography of the Warsaw-based writer. This work on restoring Siewierski is carried out using methods close to those used by readers of detective novels – after all, the writer himself became famous for them in communist Poland. Thus, we study archival traces, i.e. the traces left by the author himself as well as those that were left by him without his will. Parallel to the archival research, witnesses so people who knew Siewierski and remember him, are being “interviewed”. What emerges from these interviews is a perverse, intelligent, and interesting figure, both significant and in the shadow of the great revolutions. Interestingly, certain elements of the writer’s self-creation allow us to look for subtle connotations with the father of the detective novel, Arthur Conan DoyleThese observations are all the more interesting and valuable for literary research because no comprehensive study of Jerzy Siewierski has been written before, and most information about him comes from the Siewierski family archives, conversations with his relatives, and memorabilia left by the writer.

Jacob Taubes’s Path to Paul

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-51
Author(s):  
Ole Jakob Løland
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Post War

In the introduction to his lecture on the Epistle to the Romans from 1987, Jacob Taubes pointed to aspects of his biography as crucial for how Paul came to be a major concern for him as a Jew. The only book Taubes ever wrote as an intellectual, his doctoral thesis Occidental Eschatology (1947), already pointed to Paul, although the position about Paul became more elaborated throughout Taubes’s intellectual career. What Taubes wrote the most were letters. The letters to his former wife Susan Taubes and to his friend Armin Mohler provide a wider background to Jacob Taubes’s various paths to Paul the apostle. In these letters an inescapable reality for Taubes as a Jew in post-war Europe comes to expression: the horrors of Nazism. The question posed in one of the letters to Mohler “What was so seductive about National Socialism?”, underlies major inquiries with which Taubes confronts the reception history of Paul within modern Europe and German Christianity.

Rashi’s Commentary

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-78
Author(s):  
Eric Lawee
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Southern France ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Enormous Number

The Commentary’s medieval reception unfolded in diverse centers of Jewish life and across a strikingly large number of spheres: exegetical, educational, polemical, and more. The chapter investigates the fortunes of the Commentary through the period of its early printing in the three key centers for its reception history: Ashkenaz (the Franco-German sphere), Sefarad (Spain), and southern France. The chapter concludes with an account of Rashi’s status as the paramount Torah commentator as it is brightly underscored in data from the first half century of Hebrew printing. In the four centuries prior to print, the Commentary had circulated in hundreds of copies—an enormous number for a Hebrew work in the chirographic age, the focus of the overview here. With printing, the number of editions exploded, reaching some three thousand in three decades. The record of early printings points to the Commentary’s status as a foundational text transcending time and place and embodying a collective Jewish identity.

scholarly journals From “the unpublished edition” to “the iconic book of the twentieth century”: The reception history of Gustaw Herling’s Un mondo a parte in Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Magdalena Śniedziewska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Reception History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
Historical Periods

The article presents the reception history of one book (“Un mondo a parte”) in four different historical periods. The key social, political, and historical transformations in post‑war Italy will provide an important context for the reflection. “The unpublished edition” from 1958 is now part of the canon of twentieth‑century world literature. The belated and turbulent reception history of “Un mondo a parte” in Italy was conditioned by ideology and can also be read as the story of the slow discovery of Gustaw Herling as a writer whose books are published in Italian.

scholarly journals Translations of English-language poetry in post-war Spain (1939-1983)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Sergio Lobejón Santos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Poetry ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Comprehensive Study

In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the domestic poetry market underwent a lengthy and traumatic transformation stemming directly from the conflict and the Francoist regime’s implementation of systematic censorship. The death and exile of many of the preeminent poets from previous generations, along with the closure and relocation to Latin America of many publishing houses, left a considerable cultural void which would be partly filled with translated texts, most of them from authors writing in English. This article outlines some of the main results of a comprehensive study into the impact of censorship on the Spanish translations of English-language poetry between 1939 and 1983. Although the quantitative data point to a high authorisation rate for translated poetry, the regime used several mechanisms to curb the public’s exposure to ideas deemed harmful which profoundly impacted the translation and reception of those texts.

scholarly journals Visualization of the territorial origins of the inhabitants of the Recovered Territories (Poland) in 1950

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Szczepan Cegiełko ◽  
Izabela Karsznia
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Images ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Maps ◽  
Vector Data ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
Map Series ◽  
Post War ◽  
Comprehensive Study

AbstractThis paper gives a visualization of the territorial origins of the population of the Recovered Lands (Poland) in 1950. It constitutes a map series, based on Kosiński’s research from 1960, presenting data from the first post-war census. Vector data of the historical administrative borders of Poland was used to prepare the maps; specifically the administrative division of the People’s Republic of Poland from 1946 and the state border of the Second Republic of Poland from 1931. The administrative borders were modified as appropriate using, among other things, historical maps and satellite images. The results of this research constitute a comprehensive study on the origins of the population of the Recovered Territories. Twenty-four maps were designed, showing many aspects of the studied phenomenon.

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