Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination

Interpreting Historicism in Nineteenth-Century Music
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-521-80737-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Reihe: Musical Performance and Reception

Focusing on the reception of Palestrina, this bold interdisciplinary study explains how and why the works of a sixteenth-century composer came to be viewed as a paradigm for modern church music. It explores the diverse ways in which later composers responded to his works and style, and expounds a provocative new model for interpreting compositional historicism. In addition to presenting insights into the works of Bruckner, Mendelssohn and Liszt, the book offers new perspectives on the institutional, aesthetic and ideological frameworks sustaining the cultivation of choral music in this period. This is the first modern publication to provide an overview and analysis of the relation between the Palestrina revival and nineteenth-century composition and it demonstrates that the Palestrina revival was just as significant for nineteenth-century culture as parallel movements in the other arts, such as the Gothic revival.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garratt, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Historicism in nineteenth-century art, aesthetics and culture; 2. Romanticism and the problem of church music; 3. The Protestant Palestrina revival; 4. The Catholic Palestrina Revival; 5. Palestrina in the concert hall; 6. Interpreting the secondary discourse of nineteenth-century music.

Über Autor(innen)

Garratt, James
James Garratt is a lecturer in music at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, specialising in nineteenth-century German music, aesthetics and culture. He is also active as a choral conductor.