Alexandra Kieffer

Debussy's Critics (eBook, PDF)

Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism explores the music of Claude Debussy and its early reception in light of the rise of the empirical human sciences in Western Europe around the turn of the twentieth century. In the midst of a sea change in conceptions of the human person, the critics who wrote about Debussy's music in the Parisian press-continually returning to this music's nebulous relationship to sensation and sensibilit?-attempted to articulate a music aesthetic appropriate to the fully embodied, material self of psychological modernism. While scholarship on French music in this period has often emphasized its affinities with other art forms, such as Impressionist painting and Symbolist poetry, Debussy's Critics demonstrates that a preoccupation with the specifically sonic materiality of Debussy's music, informed by late nineteenth-century scientific discourses on affect, perception, and cognition, was central to this music's historical intervention. Foregrounding the dynamic exchange between sounds and ideas, this book reveals the disorienting and bewildering experience of listening to Debussy's music, which compelled its early audiences to reimagine the most fundamental premises of the European art-music tradition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190847258
• Artikelnr.: 56871217

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Kieffer is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2014 and spent the 2014-2015 academic year as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford University. Her work explores intersections between musical culture and physiologies of affect, listening, and sensation in Belle ?poque France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Wagnérisme and the Aesthetic of Sentiment
Chapter 2: Pelléas et Mélisande and the Aesthetic of Sensation
Chapter 3: Marnold: Music as Epistemology
Chapter 4: Laloy: Music as Truth
Chapter 5: Rewriting Modernism