Irony and sound : the music of Maurice Ravel

Stephen Zank

What is it about Bolero, Gaspard de la nuit, and Daphnis et Chloe that makes musicians and listeners alike love them so? Stephen Zank here illuminates these and other works of Maurice Ravel through several of the composer's fascinations: dynamic intensification, counterpoint, orchestration, exotic influences on Western music, and an interest in multisensorial perception. Connecting all these fascinations, Zank argues, is irony. His book offers an appreciation of Ravel's musical irony that is grounded in the vocabularies and criticism of the time and in two early attempts at writing up a "Ravel Aesthetic" by intimates of Ravel. Thomas Mann called irony the phenomenon that is, "beyond compare, the most profound and most alluring in the world." Irony and Sound, written with insight and flair, provides a long-needed reconsideration of Ravel's modernity, his teaching, and his place in twentieth-century music and culture. Musicologist Stephen Zank has taught at University of Illinois, University of North Texas, and University of Rochester. He is the author of Maurice Ravel: A Guide to Research.

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書名 Irony and sound : the music of Maurice Ravel
著作者等 Zank Stephen
シリーズ名 Eastman studies in music
出版元 University of Rochester Press
刊行年月 2009
ページ数 434 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9781580461894
NCID BB00392987
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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