English Pastoral Music

From Arcadia to Utopia, 1900-1955

Eric Saylor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04109-9 (ISBN)

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Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering book examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination. As Saylor shows, pastoral music adapted and transformed established musical and aesthetic conventions that reflected the experiences of British composers and audiences during the early twentieth century. By approaching pastoral music as a cultural phenomenon dependent on time and place, Saylor forcefully challenges the body of critical opinion that has long dismissed it as antiquated, insular, and reactionary.

Eric Saylor is a professor of musicology at Drake University. He coedited Blackness in Opera and The Sea in the British Musical Imagination.

Erscheinungsdatum	06.07.2017
Zusatzinfo	8 black & white photographs, 29 music examples, 1 table
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-252-04109-7 / 0252041097
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04109-9 / 9780252041099
Zustand	Neuware