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The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music: Aesthetic of Ambivalence

The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music: Aesthetic of Ambivalence

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Series: Musical Meaning and Interpretation

General MusicMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 0253069297
ISBN13: 9780253069290
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Jun 18 2024
Pages: 380
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

At the turn of the century, visionary composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes synthesized highly diverse elements from other musical traditions into his distinct artistic voice.

As American as he was far ranging in his interests, Griffes was an aesthetic polyglot, combining elements of literature, visual arts, global folk melodies, and contemporary European art music into a new musical language. The breadth of his sources of inspiration are breathtaking, including the sensual harmonies of fin-de-siècle French music, the British Aesthetic Movement, folk music drawn from the Middle East and Java, and a wide range of poets, including William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Sharp. The Pastoral in Charles Griffes's Music explores both his music and the rich historical context from which it grew to enrich our understanding of the composer's artistic contribution and reveal new intersections and contradictions in European and American culture during the early twentieth century. Taylor A. Greer also critiques the philosophical foundation of topic theory and its relationship to the pastoral in Griffes's music to reflect on the end of the nineteenth century and clarify our understanding of his artistic influences.

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