Edward Elgar, Modernist (Music in the Twentieth Century)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521862004
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Music; Music/Songbooks; Genres & Styles - Classical; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; Composers & Musicians - General; 1857-1934; Criticism and interpretation; Elgar, Edward,; General
First sentence: This book advances five closely interconnected but wide ranging theses.
Description: "The first full-length analytical study of Edward Elgar's music, this book argues that Elgar was a modernist composer, and that his music constitutes a pessimistic twentieth-century assessment of the nature of human being. Focusing on Elgar's music rather than his life, Harper-Scott blends the hermeneutic and existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger with music-analytical methods derived from Henrich Schenker and James Hepokoski."--Jacket.