Literature, Music, Fine Arts
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 360
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Freedom and the Arts
Author: Charles Rosen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-05-21
Total Pages: 647
ISBN-13: 0674069897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid doctrinaire extremes when approaching art of the past. To understand Shakespeare only as an Elizabethan or Jacobean theatergoer would understand him, or to modernize his plays with no sense of what they bring from his age, deforms the work, making it less ambiguous and inherently less interesting. For a work to remain alive, it must change character over time while preserving a valid witness to its earliest state. When twentieth-century scholars transformed Mozart's bland, idealized nineteenth-century image into that of a modern revolutionary expressionist, they paradoxically restored the reputation he had among his eighteenth-century contemporaries. Mozart became once again a complex innovator, challenging to perform and to understand. Drawing on a variety of critical methods, Rosen maintains that listening or reading with intensity-for pleasure-is the one activity indispensable for full appreciation. It allows us to experience multiple possibilities in literature and music, and to avoid recognizing only the revolutionary elements of artistic production. By reviving the sense that works of art have intrinsic merits that bring pleasure, we justify their continuing existence.
Deeper Than Reason
Author: Jenefer Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-04-07
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 0199263655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJenefer Robinson uses modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions to study our emotional involvement with the arts.
André Jolivet: Music, Art and Literature
Author: Caroline Rae
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-29
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0429769423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first book in English on the French composer André Jolivet (1905–1974) investigates his music, life and influence. A pupil of Varèse and colleague of Messiaen in La Jeune France, Jolivet is a major figure in French music of the twentieth century. His music combines innovative language with spirituality, summarised in his self-declared axiom to ‘restore music’s ancient original meaning when it was the magic and incantatory expression of the sacred in human communities’. The book’s contextual introduction is followed by contributions, edited by Caroline Rae, from leading international scholars including the composer’s daughter Christine Jolivet-Erlih. These assess Jolivet’s output and activities from the 1920s through to his last works, exploring creative process, aesthetic, his relationship with the exotic and influences from literature. They also examine, for the first time, the significance of Jolivet’s involvement with the visual arts and his activities as conductor, teacher and critic. A chronology of Jolivet’s life and works with details of first performances provides valuable overview and reference. This fascinating and comprehensive volume is an indispensable source for research into French music and culture of the twentieth century.
Untwisting the Serpent
Author: Daniel Albright
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780226012537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.
This Little Art
Author: Kate Briggs
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781910695456
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Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts
Author: Calvin S. Brown
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2011-10-12
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1447490002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCalvin S. Brown wrote Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts with the hope that it might open up a field of thought which has not yet been systematically explored as there had been no survey of the entire field. This book attempts to supply such a survey.
Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music
Author: Delia da Sousa Correa
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 0748693130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuriesOffers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and musicIncludes five historical sections from the Middle Ages to the present, with editorial introductions to enhance understanding of relationships between literature and music in each periodCharts and extends work in this expanding interdisciplinary field to provide an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other mediaBringing together seventy-one newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five parts, the chapters cover the Middle Ages to the present. The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of these two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture.This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.
A History of Art & Music
Author: Horst Woldemar Janson
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 317
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Author: Christopher Butler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780191534126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Butler offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. Pleasurable in its own right, Pleasure and the Arts presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression. - ;How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure.
