Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant

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Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds (Ernest Bloch Lectures)

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic periodâ€”Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Pucciniâ€”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 styleâ€™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.

Country	USA
Author	Peter Franklin
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520958036
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	218
PublicationDate	2014-02-15
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2014-02-15
Studio	University of California Press

Reclaiming Late-Romantic Music: Singing Devils and Distant Sounds (Ernest Bloch Lectures)