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Distant melodies : music in search of home

Title

Distant melodies : music in search of home / Edward Dusinberre.

Author

Dusinberre, Edward, 1968-

Publication

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
©2022

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Description

ix, 233 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"A combination of memoir and music history, Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home is a journey of exploration by a member of one of the world's leading string quartets into the related ideas of home, displacement, and retreat in the lives and chamber music of four composers: Antonín Dvořák, Edward Elgar, Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten. Dvórâk, Bartók, and Britten's American experiences, and Elgar's Piano Quintet and the English landscapes that inspired it, provide the author with a means for exploring the ways in which a piece of music may affirm or alter one's sense of home. The life experiences and notions of development and recapitulation in the music of these composers are the subject of a book that grapples with the universal human predicament of how best to balance past, present, and future, to remember faithfully and yet to move forward. Distant Melodies explores the experience of living with a piece of music over time and the ways in which engaging more closely with these composers has changed the author's own perception of home. This is a book for a wide and diverse audience: professional and amateur musicians, musicologists, and those who follow the careers of modern performing musicians, but more broadly for anyone for whom music provides solace and companionship. It helps us to understand how a piece of music and its associations can help us navigate our daily lives"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

9780226823430
0226823431
9780226823447 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022009736

OCLC

on1300751947
SCSB-14373877

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library