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Neoclassicism in Music

Neoclassicism in Music

Messing, Scott

Paperback

Music Reference

ISBN10: 187882273X
ISBN13: 9781878822734
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Jan 1 1988
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The first historical and critical study of neoclassicism from the genesis of the concept in fin de siecleFrance in the 1870s through the Schoenberg/Stravinsky polemic. By the end of the nineteenth century the traits of classicism in music had become clearly established. This codification cast long shadows over contemporary artists, encouraging a movement away from order, continuity and tradition towards freedom, innovation and novelty - and the term neoclassicism made its first appearance.

This study, the first ever critical examination of neoclassicism in music, provides a broad cultural context for the investigation of its origins, then looks in turn at Wagner and the French reaction to him; Saint-Saens, d'Indy, Debussy, Ravel and their French contemporaries; Germany and France in the decade which includes the First World War, with special reference to Thomas Mann and Ferrucio Busoni, and to Jean Cocteau and the New Simplicity; and Igor Stravinsky, the composer most frequently cited in connection with this term.

Reprint; first published 1988.

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