Music and modernism, c. 1849-1950
By: edited by Charlotte de Mille
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne,  UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781443826969
Subjects: Modernism (Art); Modern Arts; Music; Philosophy and aesthetics; Modernism (Music); Musik; Kunst
Description: A collection of essays which reevaluates the significant connections between the disciplines of music, fine art and architecture in the period covering the emergence and flowering of modernism, c. 1849-1950.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Charlotte de Mille; title: How to paint a fugue / Peter Vergo; title: Music, modernism and the Vienna secession : musical form in Ver sacrum (1898-1903) / Diane V. Silverthorne; title: Arnold Böcklin and music : a case revisited / Spyros Petritakis; title: Seeing sound, hearing colour : the synaesthetic experience in Russian avant-garde art / Isabel Wünsche; title: Courbet, Wagner, and the total work of art / James H. Rubin; title: Invoking the language of the musical vague in the art and critical reception of Henri Fantin-Latour / Corrinne Chong; title: Sacred performance : two instances of musical architecture in Cambridge / Ayla Lepine; title: "Turning the earth above a buried memory" : dismembering and remembering Kandinsky / Charlotte de Mille; title: Visual music in film, 1921-1924 : Richter, Eggeling, Ruttman / Malcolm Cook; title: "It don't mean a thing; title: " : jazz, modernism, and murals in New Deal New York / Jody Patterson; title: Zen and the art of la Monte Young / Melissa Warak; title: Formalising the stochastic cloud : Xenakis and his machine for drawing music / Olga Touloumi.