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BARTOK AND THE GROTESQUE
STUDIES IN MODERNITY, THE BODY AND CONTRADICTION IN MUSIC |
| By: |
Julie Brown, Professor Simon Keefe |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754657779 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754657774 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 October, 2007 |
| Series: |
Royal Musical Association Monographs v. 17 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures. In "The Miraculous Mandarin" and "Cantata Profana", Bartok engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. This book argues that Bartok's concerns with stylistic hybridity, the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. |
| Synopsis: |
The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden Prince (1916/17), The Miraculous Mandarin (1919/24, rev. 1931) and Cantata Profana (1930), BartA^3k engaged scenarios featuring either overtly grotesque bodies or closely related transformations and violations of the body. In a number of instrumental works he also overtly engaged grotesque satirical strategies, sometimes - as in Two Portraits: 'Ideal' and 'Grotesque' - indicating this in the title. In this book, Julie Brown argues that BartA^3k's concerns with stylistic hybridity (high-low, East-West, tonal-atonal-modal), the body, and the grotesque are inter-connected. While BartA^3k developed each interest in highly individual ways, and did so separately to a considerable extent, the three concerns remained conceptually interlinked. All three were thoroughly implicated in cultural constructions of the Modern during the period in which BartA^3k was composing. |
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Includes 5 b&w illustrations and 33 musical examples |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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