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Surprised by beauty : a listener's guide to the recovery of modern music
- Title
- Surprised by beauty : a listener's guide to the recovery of modern music / by Robert R. Reilly with Jens F. Laurson ; foreword by Ted Libbey.
- Author
- Reilly, Robert R., 1946-
- Publication
- San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- 508 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The single greatest crisis of the 20th century was the loss of faith. Noise--and its acceptance as music--was the product of the resulting spiritual confusion and, in its turn, became the further cause of its spread. Likewise, the recovery of modern music, the theme to which this book is dedicated, stems from a spiritual recovery. This is made explicitly clear by the composers whose interviews with the author are collected in this book. Robert Reilly spells out the nature of the crisis and its solution in sections that serve as bookends to the chapters on individual composers. He does not contend that all of these composers underwent and recovered from the central crisis he describes, but they all lived and worked within its broader context, and soldiered on, writing beautiful music. For this, they suffered ridicule and neglect, and he believes their rehabilitation will change the reputation of modern music."--Amazon.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Each chapter is followed by a list of recommended recordings.
- Call Number
- *L 17-335
- ISBN
- 1586179055
- 9781586179052
- LCCN
- 2014944003
- OCLC
- 944210210
- Author
- Reilly, Robert R., 1946- author.
- Title
- Surprised by beauty : a listener's guide to the recovery of modern music / by Robert R. Reilly with Jens F. Laurson ; foreword by Ted Libbey.
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
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- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Laurson, Jens F., author.Libbey, Theodore, 1951- writer of introduction.
- Research Call Number
- *L 17-335