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The music of Pavel Haas : analytical and hermeneutical studies

Title: The music of Pavel Haas : analytical and hermeneutical studies / Martin Čurda.
Author: Čurda, Martin
Publication: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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Description

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"The Czech composer Pavel Haas (1899-1944) is commonly positioned in the history of twentieth-century music as a representative of Leoš Janáček's compositional school and as one of the Jewish composers imprisoned by the Nazis in the concentration camp of Terezín (Theresienstadt). However, the nature of Janáček's influence remains largely unexplained and the focus on the context of the Holocaust tends to yield a one-sided view of Haas's oeuvre. The existing scholarship offers limited insight into Haas's compositional idiom and does not sufficiently explain the composer's position with respect to broader aesthetic trends and artistic networks in inter-war Czechoslovakia and beyond. This book is the first attempt to provide a comprehensive (albeit necessarily selective) discussion of Haas's music since the publication of Lubomír Peduzzi's 'life and work' monograph in 1993. It provides the reader with an enhanced understanding of Haas's music through analytical and hermeneutical interpretation as well as cultural and aesthetic contextualisation, and thus reveal the rich nuances of Haas's multi-faceted work which have not been sufficiently recognised so far"--

Series Statement

Ashgate studies in theory and analysis of music after 1900

Uniform Title

Ashgate studies in theory and analysis of music after 1900.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-263) and index.

Contents

Music and Avant-Garde Discourse in Inter-War Czechoslovakia -- From the Monkey Mountains: The Body, the Grotesque, and Carnival -- Suite for Piano, Op. 13 (1935): Neoclassical Tendencies -- Rhythmic Layers and Musical Form: Janáčekian Elements in Haas's Compositional Practice -- Haas's Charlatan: A Tragi-Comedy about Old Comedians, Modern Individualists, and Uncanny Doubles -- Four Songs on Chinese Poetry : Grief, Melancholy, Uncanny Reflections, and Vicious Circles in Songs from Terezín.

Call Number

JME 21-431

ISBN

9781138360013
1138360015

LCCN

2019055680
99985347560

OCLC

1130322317

Author

Čurda, Martin, author.

Title

The music of Pavel Haas : analytical and hermeneutical studies / Martin Čurda.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ashgate studies in theory and analysis of music after 1900

Ashgate studies in theory and analysis of music after 1900.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-263) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Čurda, Martin, The music of Pavel Haas New York : Routledge, 2020. 9780429433351 (DLC) 2019055681

Other Standard Identifier

99985347560

Research Call Number

JME 21-431

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